 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...  La Belle Assemblée - Seite 2001806Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 Seiten
...ago seen white-robed innocence, and flower-bespangled meads." Talking of London, he observed, " Sir, eaving c must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the •howy evolutions of buildings,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1844 - 682 Seiten
...head-quarters of iife, than the illustrious Samuel Johnson. " Talking of London," he observed, " sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...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,... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1845 - 308 Seiten
...head-quarters of life, than the illustrious Samuel Johnson. " Talking of London," he observed, " Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
 | 1847 - 726 Seiten
...! The Physiognomy of Cities. 233 THE PHYSIOGNOMY OF CITIES. "Talking of London, he observed, 'Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable litlle lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of build ings,... | |
 | 1847 - 724 Seiten
...! The Physiognomy of Citics. 233 THE PHYSIOGNOMY OF CITIES. "Talking of London, he observed, 'Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but musí survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of build; ings,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 Seiten
...ngo seen ichite-robed innocence, and Jiower-bespanghd meads." Talking of London, he observed, " Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...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,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1850 - 612 Seiten
...climates and degrees in their way of thinking and conversing together.' — Addison, Spectator, No. 403. ' 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... | |
 | 1850 - 608 Seiten
...climates and degrees in their way of thinking and conversing together.' — Addison, Spectator, No. 403. ' 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... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1855 - 780 Seiten
...prodigal of his labours as he has been sparing of his words. Dr. Johnsonthus admonished Boewell — " If you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...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,... | |
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