 | 1894 - 858 pàgines
...London in the Poets. lind no man at all intellectual who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when л man is tired of London he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford." Notwithstanding which opinion, we find Johnson indulging in a grumble against certain shortcomings... | |
 | 1895 - 534 pàgines
...across the Strand, at the thought of so much life. " When a man is tired of London," says Dr. Johnson, " he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford." WESTMINSTER ABBEY. As a sanctuary, temple and tomb, this glorious Abbey has won the attention of successive... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - 1896 - 312 pàgines
...hanging in London to a natural death out of, it,s have their true prototypes in the classical age. " When a man is tired of London he is tired of life," is Dr. Johnson's dictum. Gibbon said 1 Pope : Letters, Vol. I, p. 73. 2 Pope : A Farewell to London,... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1897 - 476 pàgines
...George the First knew nothing, and desired to know nothing ; did nothing, and desired to do nothing." " When a man is tired of London he is tired of life." " As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them." " About the things on which the public thinks... | |
 | Edward Lowe Temple - 1899 - 446 pàgines
...where so many Americans congregate, and which seem in themselves to be dulness itself by comparison. " When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life;...for there is in London all that life can afford," said the metropolis-loving Doctor Johnson, though this did not prevent his journeying to Edinburgh... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pàgines
...but one evil, — poverty. Chap. ix. 1777. Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy. ibid. When a man is tired of London he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford. ibid. He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him for it. ibid. Goldsmith, however, was a man... | |
 | 1903 - 772 pàgines
...and summed up the feeling of thousands of lovers of the town before and since his day in the words : "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." It would take too long to trace the evolution of Johnson from the nameless correspondent of the Gentleman's... | |
 | Thomas Marc Parrott - 1904 - 330 pàgines
...and summed up the feeling of thousands of lovers of the town before and since his day in the words, " When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." It would take too long to trace the evolution of Johnson from the unknown correspondent of the Gentleman's... | |
 | 1905 - 408 pàgines
...who had such a gust for London as you have, and yet I cannot blame you for your wish to live there." I suggested a doubt, that if I were to reside in London,...for there is in London all that life can afford." II Johnson. " If a man walks out in the country, there is nobody to keep him from walking in again... | |
 | 1906 - 410 pàgines
...as you have, and yet I cannot blame you for your wish to live there." I suggested a doubt, that if 1 were to reside in London, the exquisite zest with...for there is in London all that life can afford." II Johnson. " If a man walks out in the country, there is nobody to keep him from walking in again... | |
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Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford. 
