Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in... Unnoticed London - Seite 133von Elizabeth Montizambert - 1923 - 222 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1794 - 518 Seiten
...researches of the most judicious, learned, and segacious. ,, ..„ LONDON CHARACTERIZED. BY DR. JOHNSON. IF you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...and squares, but must survey the innumerable little alleys and courts. It is not iri the shewy evolutions of building.), but in the multiplicity of human... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 Seiten
...long ago seen white-robed innocence, and flower-bespangled meads' Talking of London, he observed, ' Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 Seiten
...diction-' too is not his own. We have long ago seen -white-robed mnocence, and flower-befpangled meads" to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city,...must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which... | |
| 1806 - 446 Seiten
...evil, that slight vexations do not fix upon the heart, and relief is afforded to the melanchuly mind. If you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but mustsurasy the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not rn the shewy evulutions of buildings,... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 514 Seiten
...long ago seen white-robed innocence, and flower-bespangled meads." Talking of London, he observed, " Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 Seiten
...for the obscurity, insipidity, and uniformity of remote situations. At another time he observed, " Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which... | |
| 1812 - 594 Seiten
...only know that I intended well ; and I hope al.l will end well." LONDON CHARACTERISED. BY DR. JOHNSON. If you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...and squares, but must survey the innumerable little allies and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 Seiten
...long ago seen white-robed innocence and ßotcer-bespangled meads." Talking of London, he observed, "Sir, if you wish to have a just ' notion of the magnitude...must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which... | |
| John Selden - 1818 - 678 Seiten
...for the obscurity, insipidity, and uniformity of remote situations. At another time he observed, t( Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 382 Seiten
...than your exports, and you'll never go far wrong." No. XIII. LONDON. OF London, Johnson observed, " Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of the city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the... | |
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