..."Sir," Samuel Johnson intoned from his armchair, "a man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected...travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean." The schoolbooks may claim that the Middle East, specifically Mesopotamia, was the cradle of civilization,...

...of education; in the elder, a part of experience. . .' Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) considered '. . . the grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean'. Many present day travellers set their sights considerably further away than that! Robert Louis Stevenson...

...neo-classical to a romantic culture that its leading spokesman could say: "A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean."...

...seventeenth.1' Dr Johnson would have had it in mind when he declared that, 'A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not...travelling is to see the shores of the mediterranean.'" One of the few distinguished men of his time who died without seeing Naples, Johnson would have chosen...

...would be the case in a general state of equality. 5093 Boswell - Life A man who has not been in Italy, h 5094 Boswell - Life When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all...

...but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. 2124 Boswell - Life A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not...having seen what it is expected a man should see. 99 one. 2125 Boswell - Life A mere antiquarian is a rugged being. 2\26 Boswell - Life Were it not for...

...intelligence. John Pemble quotes Samuel Johnson's weighty saying that "A man who has not been to Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not...having seen what it is expected a man should see". Now Gissing, while immensely gratified by his self-education in Italy, felt he still had so much more...

...cultural contrast with what had gone before was almost painfully jarring: 'A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority from his not...having seen what it is expected a man should see,' wrote Dr Johnson 170 years later, and try as you might it just isn't possible to stick Switzerland...

...the shores of the Mediterranean', said Samuel Johnson in 1776, '[a] man who has not been to Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see'.6 Joseph Addison's Remarks on Several Parts of Italy (1705) was for many years a nearly indispensable...

...the late eighteenth, when Samuel Johnson made the famous remark, "A man who has not been to Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected that a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the seashores of the Mediterranean."...