 | James Hay - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1884 - 376 pages
...the kingdom. — Life. September 30, 1769. Life in When a man is tired of London, he is tired London of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford. — Life. September 20, 1777. Love in A man in London is in less danger of n on falling in love indiscreetly... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - Wales - 1885 - 610 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/' A"o/t omnia possuruus omnes, as Partridge confessed on an embarrassing occasion, and if Johnson ridiculed... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Artists - 1887 - 632 pages
...with which I relished it on occasional visits might go off, and I might grow tired of it. JOHKSON : " Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who...for there is in London all that life can afford." We walked in the evening in Greenwich (grin' V) Park. He asked me, I suppose by way of trying my disposition,... | |
 | William Mathews - France - 1887 - 406 pages
...antennae nearly touch Dulwich and Balham. " When a man is tired of London," said Dr. Johnson to Boswell, "he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." Charles Lamb used to shed tears in the motley and crowded Strand from fulness of joy at the sight of... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1891 - 1190 pages
...hat one evil, — poverty. Chap. ix. 1777. Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy. Ihid. When a man is tired of London he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford. ihid. He was so generally civil that nohody thanked him for it. ihid. Goldsmith, however, was a man... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1893 - 662 pages
...London if, instead of an occasional visit, he made it his residence. " Why, sir," cried Johnson, " you find no man at all intellectual who is willing...life, for there is in London all that life can afford. A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable... | |
 | 1908 - 324 pages
...set down as evidence of physical and mental disease, since Johnson, with pontifical pomposity, said, "Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of l1fe." As the Times newspaper remarked yesterday : " As for Dr. Johnson, prejudices throve in his mind... | |
 | 1894 - 740 pages
...occasion, when Boswell suggested that as a constant résidant he might grow tired of it, exclaimed : " Why, sir, you find no man at all Intellectual who...for there is in London all that life can afford." Notwithstanding which opinion, we find Johnson indulging in a grumblu against certain shortcomings... | |
 | 1894 - 756 pages
...Boswell suggested that as a constant resident he might grow tired of it, exclaimed : " Why, sir, yon find no man at all intellectual who is willing to...for there is in London all that life can afford." Notwithstanding which opinion, we find Johnson indulging in a grumble against certain shortcomings... | |
 | Anthologies - 1888 - 438 pages
...London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it." " Why, sir, you find no man, who is at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London....when a man is tired of London he is tired of life" (18. C. ii. 123). " The town is my element ; there are my friends, there are my books, to which I have... | |
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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. 
