...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,...

...apt to degenerate, from want of exercise and competition. (Ibid., 3. 138 — Collectanea of Maxwell.) "Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who...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...

...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 go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can...

...the urban geographer at different levels of the globallocal spectrum. 4. Dr Johnston (1709-84) said 'when a man is tired of London he is tired of life;...for there is in London all that life can afford', yet Shelley (1792-1822) thought that vhell is a city much like London'. Make a list of the positive...

...its dark and winding lanes. London was progressive, the pride of Europe. 'He that is tired of London is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford,' Samuel Johnson remarked, and there certainly was a multiplicity of amusements and a richness of history,...

...occasional visits might go off, and I might grow tired of it.' Johnson entertained no such reservations: 'Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who...for there is in London all that life can afford.' 1 Reddaway. 2 I.1ndsav. 3 For a masterly account sec Summerson. 4 Summerson, Wren. T Defoe. 6 Thomson....

...melancholy was as clearly dissipated as if it had never existed in my mind. Johnson, you remember, said that "when a man is tired of London he is tired of life;...for there is in London all that life can afford", but he also said that he had never known a man "with such a gust" for London as Boswell. 4 His longing...