 The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom.  The table talk of Samuel Johnson - Страница 60по Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 128 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1888 - 438 страници
...was more learning and science within ten miles of where they sat than in all the kingdom else; and "The happiness of 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. No, sir ;... | |
 | Alfred Neobard Palmer - 1897 - 508 страници
...in London a hundred and thirty years ago, when it was still possible for Dr Johnson to say of it, " The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it ; " to have belonged to my club, out of which every Whig dog was well whipped (pardon my freedom, sir)... | |
 | 1898 - 252 страници
...reading, not only as entertaining, but as adding to one's stock of knowledge. Says Dr. Johnson : ' 'Sir, the happiness of London is not to be conceived but...within the circumference of ten miles from where we sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom." I could talk days, yes, months over all we saw in even the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 500 страници
...esteem him to be. Talking of a London Kfe, he said, " The happiness of London is not to be conceived bat by those who have been in it. I will venture to say,...within the circumference of ten miles from where we now eit, than in all the rest of the kingdom." BOSWELL. " The only disadvantage is the great distance at... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1901 - 412 страници
...BLACKFEIARS 327 CHAPTER XII. LONDON BRIDGE AND SOUTHWABK 346 INDEX 367 WALKS IN LONDON INTRODUCTORY. ' Q IR, the happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those £j who have been in it. I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1902 - 464 страници
...shall begin," I said resolutely, " to explore London to-morrow." GREATNESS OF LONDON AUGUSTUS JC HARE , the happiness of London is not to be conceived but...within the circumference of ten miles from where we sit than in all the rest of the kingdom." Such was the dictum of Dr. Johnson when he was seated with... | |
 | Anne Hollingsworth Wharton - 1908 - 350 страници
...wonder that Dr. Johnson exclaimed, when he sat with Bo swell at the Mitre Tavern, near Temple Bar: "Sir, the happiness of London is not to be conceived but...within the circumference of ten miles from where we sit than in all the rest of the kingdom." There is no other city in which we could have taken a walk... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...advantage was overbalanced by his making the boys run after him."2 Talking of a London life, he said, " The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. 1 will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1911 - 400 страници
...assured." We clear the chasm of a century, and hear Dr. Johnson singing the same tune as Squire Hicks. " The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I'll venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1911 - 406 страници
...assured." We clear the chasm of a century, and hear Dr. Johnson singing the same tune as Squire Hicks. " The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I'll venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from... | |
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