 | May Yates - 1922 - 132 pages
...the literary universe, it is true, yet he could never, at any time, have fully endorsed Johnson's " No, sir, when a man is tired of London he is tired...for there is in London all that life can afford." To love and describe nature faithfully one must either live in daily communion with her or be able to... | |
 | History - 1922 - 656 pages
...Dr. Johnson, the metropolis whose variety and intellectual activity inspired his famous encomium, " When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw great developments in overseas trade, largely through... | |
 | History - 1922 - 650 pages
...Dr. Johnson, the metropolis whose variety and intellectual activity inspired his famous encomium, " When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw great developments in overseas trade, largely through... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1923 - 372 pages
...commerce by which he could be supplied with money, how could he maintain them in foreign countries? I suggested a doubt, that if I were to reside in London,...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... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - Authors - 1923 - 170 pages
...again. Dr. JOHNSON. Why, sir, you will find no man at all intellectual who does not delight in London. When a man is tired of London he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford. But, sir, I never knew any one with such a gust for the town as you have. Mr. BOSWELL. The streets,... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time, contriving not to have tedious hours.' " 1 " ' Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who...for there is in London all that life can afford.' " 2 " ' Yet, Sir ' (said I), ' there are many people who are content to live in the country. ' JOHNSON.... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1924 - 322 pages
...intellectual fellowship to be enjoyed in London did their best to keep him in it. He himself said, " When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life...for there is in London all that life can afford." Johnson loved London and, if we think of him, we usually picture him enthroned in a chair in his beloved... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1924 - 222 pages
...summer were redolent of hawthorn." These facts we must bear in mind when we hear Johnson saying : " When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life...for there is in London all that life can afford." Even the passage in Boswell which records Johnson's strongest general denunciation of a country life... | |
 | Stephen McKenna - English fiction - 1913 - 298 pages
...doesn't know where I am. I only told her I was running up to London for the day." "You're very restless! 'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,' as Dr. Johnson remarked, not knowing that to the female mind London only conjures up a picture of milliners'... | |
 | Mary Dorothy George - Labor - 1925 - 502 pages
...Chapter I the proposals of Dr. Stanger and Dr. Bateman. CHAPTER III LONDON IMMIGRANTS AND EMIGRANTS "' When a man is tired of London he is tired of Life." — JOHNSON (1777). THE framework of English society was in the eighteenth century still largely based... | |
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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. 
