...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...

...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...

...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,...

...competition. (Ibid., 3. 138 — Collectanea of Maxwell.) "Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man...for there is in London all that life can afford." (Ibid., 3. 202.) "No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can...

...happiness, we must travel into a very far country, and even out of ourselves. Sir Thomas Browne, C, 101. SIR, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of...life; for there is in London all that life can afford. Dr. Johnson, B, III, 178. WHY, Sir, Fleet Street has a very animated appearance; but, I think the full...

...which, of all themes, Johnson was later to come most heartily to dislike. " No, sir," he was to say, " when a man is tired of London he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford." Because he soon revolted against a merely Rousseauan insincerity and refused any longer to dupe himself...

...Lebensführung, Einsamkeit dagegen die Mutter aller Betrübnis. Johnson. kam sogar zu der kr un Konsequenz: „When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,...for there is in London all that life can afford".») Für die Dichtung, die aus dem menschlichen Hange zur Einsamkeit hervorgegangen ist und die Schilderung...

...competition. (Ibid., 3. 138 — Collectanea of Maxwell.) "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 a tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." (Ibid., 3. 202.) "No wise man will...

...suburban dwellings were second homes, used for weekend and summer retreats. As Samuel Johnson said, "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."18 The American suburb is very different in character and intention. Unlike its English predecessor,...

...2:228). As Johnson (may have) remarked to Boswell, "Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man...life; for there is in London all that life can afford" (3: 1 78). 15 Hume, although preferring Edinburgh or Paris, concurs with Johnson's general point; he...