 | Fleur Britten - 2008 - 130 sivua
...boozer (pub) will offer a game of arras (arrows - darts) and a few Britneys (Britney Spears - beers). 'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life' - so goes the now cliched quote of 1 8th-century writer Samuel Johnson. And of course, the cliche is... | |
 | Rosy Cole - 2008 - 371 sivua
...meet a variety of interesting people. Dr Johnson, for all he's a gouty, ill-tempered fellow, says that when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." "Well, I daresay he never came to Boughton Malherbe, ma'am, nor to Barnwood, either!" Mrs Foote responded... | |
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Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford. 
