 | 1909 - 844 pages
..."Babies do not want to hear about babies." "The great end of comedy is to make an audience merry." "When a man is tired of London he is tired of life." "A cow is a very good nnlmal in a field, but we turn her out of a garden." "No man is a hypocrite in... | |
 | James Thorne - Thames River (England) - 1847 - 480 pages
...regretted that men of stronger intellect should still be found ready to give currency and credit to of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford."* But while we can thus see pretty plainly how natural it was for Cowley to write gloomily under the... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 392 pages
...in circulation ? " I suggested the same difficulty to a friend who mentioned Douglas's going to tKe Holy Land with a numerous train of followers. (')...for there is in London all that life can afford.' ( 1 ) James de Duglas was requested by King Robert Bruce in his last hours to repair with his heart... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1872 - 676 pages
...that tiresome dull place, where all people under thirty find so much amusement." — Gray, in 17C4. " Why, Sir, you find no man at all intellectual who...for there is in London all that life can afford." — Dr. Johnson, in 1777. JONATHAN BOUCHIEK. VOLTAIRE AND DR. JOHNSON.— It is of sufficient importance... | |
 | John Dennis - 1855 - 256 pages
...that the view in Fleet Street was superior to the finest scenery in the world, and who declared "that when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; since there is in London all that life can afford." ffieological Structure of tfje Countrg SEEN FROM... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1861 - 696 pages
...occasional visits, might not go off, and he grow tired of it. " Why, sir," answers Johnson, to that, " you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing...for there is in London all that life can afford." Cowper, devotee as he was to the agricultural interest, could and would give emphasis to London's comprehensive... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 pages
...play. THE WORLD OF LONDON. You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there si in London all that life can afford. THE SPENDING OF MONEY. A woman of fortune being used to the... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...living in London) is not to be conceived of but by those who have been in it'1 Another time he said, " When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; " and he, like Lamb, regarded Fleet Street and the Strand as a sort of modified, perhaps rather inferior... | |
 | American literature - 1869 - 438 pages
...Osgood $7. 15 TllOrilbliry, Walter. Haunted London. 8vo. whished, calf, gilt. London, 1865. £9,00. " When a man is tired of London he is tired of life, lor there is in London all life can afford, and it is the fountain of intelligence and pleasure." —... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1872 - 592 pages
...that tiresome dull place, where oil people under thirty find so much amusement." — Gray, in 1764. " Why, Sir, you find no man at all intellectual who...for there is in London all that life can afford." — Dr. Johnson, in 1777. JONATHAN BOUCHIER. VOLTAIRE AND DR. J(pnNSON. — It is of sufficient importance... | |
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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. 
