 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...the pleasure to peruse in its proper place. We walked in the evening in Grcenwich park. He asked mo, I suppose by way of trying my disposition, ' Is not...of men,' I answered, ' Yes, sir, but not equal to Flect Strcet.' JOHNSON: ' You are right, sir.' ³ am aware that many, of my readers may censure Jay... | |
 | Masonic monthly - 1881 - 548 pages
...wrong to each that the world cannot reach, H Z a. H o t(J a li U 'A BIT OF OLD LONDON. BY WE M1LLIKEN. We walked in the evening in Greenwich Park. He asked...not this very fine ? " Having no exquisite relish <,f the beauties of nature, and being more delighted with the busy hum of men, I answered, " Yee, sir... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...will have the pleasure to peruse in its proper place. We walked in the evening in Greenwich IKurk. He asked me, I suppose by way of trying my disposition,...Having no exquisite relish of the beauties of nature, «ntl being more delighted with ' the busy hum of men,' I answered, ' Yes, sir, but not equal to Fleet... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 604 pages
...been some time at Utrecht, and which my readers will have the pleasure to peruse in its proper place. We walked in the evening in Greenwich Park. He asked...hum of men," I answered, "Yes, Sir; but not equal to Fleet-street." JOHNSON. "You are right, Sir." I am aware that many of my readers may censure my want... | |
 | James Thorne - 1876 - 450 pages
...the consecrated earth.'" t But his enthusiasm for the place was less fervid than for the poem, and the experience of a quarter of a century had abated...to Fleet Street.' JOHNSON, ' You are right, Sir.' " 4 The Royal Observatory, whence is reckoned the first meridian of longitude, occupies the site of... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1877 - 398 pages
...to many other places, and the evening in Greenwich Park," writes Boswell, at a much later period. " He asked me, I suppose by way of trying my disposition, ' Is not this very flue ? ' Having no exquisite relish of the beauties of nature, and being more delighted with the '... | |
 | 1879 - 346 pages
...harlot, if his wife has not been negligent of pleasing." — Boswell. OBTUSENESS TO NATURAL BEAUTY. WE walked, in the evening, in Greenwich Park. He asked...to Fleet Street." Johnson : " You are right, sir." — Boswell. Some gentlemen of the neighborhood came to visit my father; but there was little conversation.... | |
 | 1879 - 348 pages
...pleasing."—Boswell. OBTUSENESS TO NATURAL BEAUTY. WE walked, in the evening, in Greenwich Park. Ho asked me—I suppose, by way of trying my disposition—" Is not...equal to Fleet Street." Johnson: " You are right, sir."—I3oswell. Some gentlemen of the neighborhood came to visit my father; but there was little... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 672 pages
...time he was lodging in Greenwich. " We walked in the evening in Greenwich Park," writes Boswell. " He asked me, I suppose by way of trying my disposition,...answered, ' Yes, sir ; but not equal to Fleet Street.' Jühnson : ' You are right, sir.' " Greenwich Park, particularly at fair time, was the scene of every... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 pages
...been some time at Utrecht, and which my readers will have the pleasure to peruse in its proper place. We walked in the evening in Greenwich Park. He asked...of men," I answered, " Yes, Sir ; but not equal to Fleet-street." JOHNSON. " You are right, Sir." I am aware that many of my readers may censure my want... | |
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We walked in the evening in Greenwich park. He asked me, I suppose, by way of trying my disposition, " Is not this very fine?" Having no exquisite relish of the beauties of nature, and being more delighted with " the busy hum of men," I answered " Yes,... 
