 | Samuel Smiles - 1910 - 502 páginas
...The town is my element ; there are my friends, there are my books, and there are my amusements. . . . When a man is tired of London he is tired of life...for there is in London all that life can afford." Sir Joshua Reynolds was as fond of London as Johnson, " always maintaining," says Malone, " that it... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 páginas
...Babies do not want to hear about babies.' ' The great end of comedy is to make an audience merry.' ' When a man is tired of London he is tired of life.' ' A cow is a very good animal in a field, but we turn her out of a garden.' ' No man is a hypocrite... | |
 | George Frederick Bosworth - 1911 - 288 páginas
...of most people who come to it early enough, and Dr Johnson expressed this feeling when he said : " Why, sir, you find no man at all intellectual who...for there is in London all that life can afford." 28. THE CITY OF LONDON AND THE BOROUGHS IN THE NORTH-EAST AND SOUTH-EAST OF THE COUNTY OF LONDON. The... | |
 | George Frederick Bosworth - 1912 - 310 páginas
...of most people who come to it early enough, and Dr Johnson expressed this feeling when he said : — "Why, sir, you find no man at all intellectual who...for there is in London all that life can afford." 29. THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER AND THE BOROUGHS IN THE NORTH-WEST AND SOUTH-WEST OF THE COUNTY OF LONDON.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1913 - 644 páginas
...suggested a doubt, that if I were to reside in London, the exquisite zest with which I relished it in occasional visits might go off, and I might grow tired...for there is in London all that life can afford." --^_^__^-.j-t_ , To obviate his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 páginas
...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 iiere is in London all that life can afford. ¡bid. He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 606 páginas
...suggested a doubt, that if I were to reside in London, the exquisite zest with which I relished it in occasional visits might go off, and I might grow tired...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... | |
 | Gertrude Richardson Brigham - 1917 - 310 páginas
...beginnings of a grand collection. PART IV PICTURES TO SEE IN EUROPE CHAPTER X PICTURES TO SEE IN LONDON " When a man is tired of London he is tired of life for there is in London all that life ran afford." — BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson. Among the many fine collections of painting in London,... | |
 | Julia Patton - 1918 - 264 páginas
...in occasional visits might go off, and he might grow tired of it. "Why, Sir," exclaimed the Doctor, "you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing...for there is in London all that life can afford." And again when Boswell ventured to intimate that there were people who were content to live in the... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 páginas
...amusements. Boswell once suggested that he himself might grow tired of the city if he lived continuously in it : "JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, you find no man, at all...for there is in London all that life can afford'"; and to the very end he found that "such conversation as London affords, could be found nowhere else."... | |
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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. 
