...such nonsense," he said, when his travelling companion wished to show him some beautiful prospect, "a blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether...another ; let us, if we do talk, talk about something." To Johnson a mountain was simply "a protuberance." He knew nothing of the rest of spirit that comes...

...they have, in appearance, little connection with the leaf-limb, eg Oryza (C). Dr Johnson once said,. "a blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another"; it is sad that we cannot know what his reaction would have been if some of the broad-leaved forest...

...was too short-sighted to see scenery ; he thought ' prospects ' were nonsense. ' Let us,' he said, ' if we do talk, talk about something ; men and women are my subjects of inquiry ' (M. i. 215). London supplied him with all the material of life. ' Why, Sir, you find no man at all...