 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...  Tait's Edinburgh magazine - Strona 2181855Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1794 - Liczba stron: 518
...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 - Liczba stron: 648
...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...showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crouded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - Liczba stron: 496
...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,...showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crouded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists."... | |
 | 1806 - Liczba stron: 446
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - Liczba stron: 228
...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...showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists*."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - Liczba stron: 514
...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...showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists."—I... | |
 | 1812 - Liczba stron: 594
...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 - Liczba stron: 466
...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...showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists."... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - Liczba stron: 678
...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...showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists*."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - Liczba stron: 382
...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...showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists."... | |
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