 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 586 pages
...the cheerfulness of Fleet-street, owing to the constant quick succession of people which we perceive passing through it. JOHNSON. " Why, sir, Fleet-street has a very animated appearance ; hut I think the full tide of human existence is at Charingcross." He made the common remark on the... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...the impious, when a good man would blush to receive presents from a villain ! Plato. m Fleet Street has a very animated appearance ; but I think the full tide of hnman existence is at Charing-Cross. Johiuon. Who doth not sec the measure* of the moon, Which thirteen... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 374 pages
...quick succession of people which we perceive passing through it. JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, Fleet Street has a very animated appearance ; but I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing Cross." He made the common remark on the unhappiness which men who have led a busy life experience,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...quick succession of people which we perceive passing through it. JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, Fleet Street has a very animated appearance; but I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing Cross." He made the common remark on the unhappiness which men who have led a busy life experience,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1843 - 866 pages
...them. In Boswell, (vol. vp 278, ed. Croker,) Johnson says to his friend, — " Why, Sir, Fleet Street has a very animated appearance ; but I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing Cross." Compare the Gray's Inn Journal, No. 10, p. 67. "He has made great inquiry into the... | |
 | 1844 - 778 pages
...succession of people which we perceive passing through it." "Why, sir," said Johnson, "Fleet Street has a very animated appearance ; but I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing Cross." The throng and turmoil of a crowded place were delightful sights to a man like Johnson,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 326 pages
...the cheerfulness of Fleet-street, owing to the constant quick succession of people which we perceive passing through it. JOHNSON : " Why, Sir, Fleet-street has a very animated appearance ; but I think the tide of human existence is at Charing-cross." FLEET 3TREtT—1775. He made the common remark on the... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 378 pages
...property, or make the wick, the wax, or the flame, or the whole candle less my own. — Swift. CCCXCIII. Fleet-street has a very animated appearance ; but...full tide of human existence is at Charing-cross. — Johnson. CCCXCIV. How many are like those trees, which being already tall and well grown, are transplanted... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 464 pages
...has a very animated appearance ; but I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing Cross." He made the common remark on the unhappiness which...ease, and that they generally languish for want of thejr habitual occupation, and wish to return to it. He mentioned as strong an instance of this as... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...attacked enough for it. Attack is the re-action ; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds." Fleet-street has a very animated appearance ; but I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing Cross. — Johnson, 443. AN eminent tallowchandler in London, who had acquired a considerable... | |
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He made the common remark on the unhappiness which men who have led a busy life experience, when they retire in expectation of enjoying themselves at ease, and that they generally languish for want of their habitual occupation, and wish to return to it.... 
