| 1922 - 656 pages
...Dr. Johnson, the metropolis whose variety and intellectual activity inspired his famous encomium, " When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw great developments in overseas trade, largely through... | |
| James Boswell - 1923 - 372 pages
...to reside in London, the exquisite zest with which I relished it in occasional visits might go off, and I might grow tired of it. JOHNSON. "Why, Sir,...for there is in London all that life can afford." He said, a country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may... | |
| Alfred Edward Newton - 1923 - 170 pages
...again. Dr. JOHNSON. Why, sir, you will find no man at all intellectual who does not delight in London. When a man is tired of London he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford. But, sir, I never knew any one with such a gust for the town as you have. Mr. BOSWELL. The streets,... | |
| Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time, contriving not to have tedious hours.' " 1 " ' Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who...for there is in London all that life can afford.' " 2 " ' Yet, Sir ' (said I), ' there are many people who are content to live in the country. ' JOHNSON.... | |
| Oswald Doughty - 1924 - 222 pages
...summer were redolent of hawthorn." These facts we must bear in mind when we hear Johnson saying : " When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life...for there is in London all that life can afford." Even the passage in Boswell which records Johnson's strongest general denunciation of a country life... | |
| Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1924 - 322 pages
...intellectual fellowship to be enjoyed in London did their best to keep him in it. He himself said, " When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life...for there is in London all that life can afford." Johnson loved London and, if we think of him, we usually picture him enthroned in a chair in his beloved... | |
| Stephen McKenna - 1913 - 298 pages
...doesn't know where I am. I only told her I was running up to London for the day." "You're very restless! 'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,' as Dr. Johnson remarked, not knowing that to the female mind London only conjures up a picture of milliners'... | |
| Mary Dorothy George - 1925 - 502 pages
...Chapter I the proposals of Dr. Stanger and Dr. Bateman. CHAPTER III LONDON IMMIGRANTS AND EMIGRANTS "' When a man is tired of London he is tired of Life." — JOHNSON (1777). THE framework of English society was in the eighteenth century still largely based... | |
| 1926 - 524 pages
...a Lichfield man, he is the Londoner par excellence, by long association and by love of our city. " When a man is tired of London he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford " — only a true lover could have said that. Johnson had many homes in and about London City, but... | |
| Alan Mulgan - 1927 - 248 pages
...beauty are — Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose. — WALTER DE LA MARE. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired...; for there is in London all that life can afford. — DR. JOHNSON. CONCEIVE then that first day in England — a fine, mild morning near the end of April,... | |
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