...his preeminent appetite for London life is strongly evidenced. " The happiness of London" he said, "is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. 1 will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from...

...pre-eminent appetite for London life is strongly evidenced. " The happiness of London," he said, " is not to be conceived but by those who have been...all the rest of the kingdom. — BOSWELL. The only VOL. I. D disadvantage is the great distance at which people live from one another. — JOHNSON. Yes,...

...coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one."] Talking of a London life, he said, " The happiness of London is not to be conceived but...is the great distance at which people live from one anther." JOHNSON. " Yes, sir; but that is occasioned by the largeness of it, which is the cause of...

...Johnson : his attachment to London breaks out in many parts of his writings. In one place he says : ' The happiness of London is not to be conceived but...we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom.' And Davy, speaking of the Metropolis, observes : ' It was to me as the grand theatre of intellectual...

...Johnson ; his attachment to London breaks out in many parts of his writings. In one place he says : " The happiness of London is not to be conceived but...we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom." And Davy, speaking of the metropolis, observes : " It was to me us the grand theatre of intellectual...

...forward to what you shall be, rather than backward to what you have been. LIFE IN A LARGE CITY. — The happiness of London is not to be conceived but...where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom. — Johnson. LIFE, INFLUENCE OF ITS BREVITY. — I would have every one consider that he is, in this...

...is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.— Sterne. MCCXCVIII. The happiness of London is not to be conceived but...where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom. — Johnson. MCCXCIX. 'Twas never merry world, since, of two usuries, the merriest was put down, and...

...are hourly made upon it. — Sterne. MCCXCVIIL The happiness of London is not to be conceived but ")y those who have been in it. I will venture to say,...where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom. — Johnson. MCCXCIX. Twas never merry world, since, of two usuries, the merriest was put down, and...

...advantage was over-balanced by making the boys run after him." 3 Talking of a London life, he said, " The happiness of London is not to be conceived but...we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom." Bos WELL. " The only disadvantage is the great distance at which people live from one another." JOHNSON....

...already heard him over and over again dilate on the superiority of the metropolis ; and maintain that the happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those -who have been in it; and "venture to say" that there was more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles...