 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 - Page 2001806Full view - About this book
 | Freemasonry - 1794 - 518 pages
...researches of the most judicious, learned, and segacious. ,, ..„ LONDON CHARACTERIZED. BY DR. JOHNSON. 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 alleys and courts. It is not iri the shewy evolutions of building.),... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...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,...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pages
...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...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 - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...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,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1812 - 594 pages
...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...satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little allies and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...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...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 Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...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...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 - Authors, English - 1820 - 382 pages
...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 innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 384 pages
...your experts, 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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