 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...reside in London, the exquisite zest with which I relished it in occasional visits might grow off, and I might grow tired of it. JOHNSON. " Why, Sir,...in London all that life can afford." To obviate his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I assured him, that... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Authors, English - 1878 - 376 pages
...succeeded in that which he has endeavoured to do." ' London life had lost to him none of its charms. ' When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life...for there is in London all that life can afford.' And when in the last autumn that he was ever to see, he had gone into the country in the hope that... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pages
...to reside in London, the exquisite zest with which I relished it in occasional visits might go off, and I might grow tired of it. Johnson: "Why, sir,...for there is in London all that life can afford."— Boswell. TEA. — His defence of tea against Mr. Jonas lianway's violent attack upon that elegant and... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 pages
...relished it in occasional visits might go off, and I might grow tired of it. Johnson: "Why, sir, yon find no man at all intellectual who is willing to...of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."—Boswell. TEA.—His defence of tea against Mr. Jonas Hanway's violent attack upon that elegant... | |
 | Choice literature - 1880 - 786 pages
...ambition of the other. • ' When a man is tired of London, " said Dr. Johnson on one occasion to Boswell, "he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." And again: — "Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude o) this city, you must not... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...are one or the other for weeks." Dr. Johnson asserted in another conversation upon the metropolis : " When a man is tired of London he is tired of life...for there is in London all that life can afford." That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. Of a dull, tiresome fellow.... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - English language - 1882 - 238 pages
...43. Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet ; For you and I are past our dancing days. Rom. 1, 5, 32. When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life...; for there is in London all that life can afford. — -Johnson. Is there more toil ? Since thou dost give me pains, Let me remember thee what thou hast... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - Wales - 1885 - 720 pages
...the most brilliant men of a brilliant period. Can we now wonder at his confession of faith, that " when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life...for there is in London all that life can afford." Non omnia posswinun omnes, as Partridge confessed on an embarrassing occasion, and if Johnson ridiculed... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 634 pages
...to reside in London, the exquisite zest with which I relished it in occasional visits might go off, and I might grow tired of it. JOHNSON. " Why, Sir,...in London all that life can afford." To obviate his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I assured him that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pages
...to reside in London, the exquisite zest with which I relished it in occasional visits might go off, and I might grow tired of it. JOHNSON. "Why, Sir,...in London all that life can afford." To obviate his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I assured him that... | |
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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. 
