 Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome ; and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No...  Boswell's Life of Johnson - 274. oldalszerző: James Boswell - 1917 - 574 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 oldal
...more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. 12 THE MARRIED STATE. Marriage is the best state for man in general; and every man is a worse man,... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 oldal
...the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servant will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. DR. JOHNSON. WHOE'ER has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to... | |
 | John Greville Fennell - 1867 - 502 oldal
...more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." TOUBIST-ANGLElt'.S UL'IDE. 35 SHIPLAKE. Station Master, Mr. J. DAIOES. Distance from London, 333 milm.... | |
 | George Canning Hill - 1867 - 354 oldal
...On the subject of inns, Dr. Johnson's dictum may be worth quoting again: — "No, sir," said he, " there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." And he was fond of repeating Shenstone's well-known lines in support of his sentiment : — " Whoe'er... | |
 | George Canning Hill - 1867 - 354 oldal
...On the subject of inns, Dr. Johnson's dictum may be worth quoting again : — " No, sir," said he, " there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." And he was fond of repeating Shenstone's well-known lines in support of his sentiment : — " Whoe'er... | |
 | Book - 1868 - 284 oldal
...he has deserved it, and been thereby rewarded. Boswell, in writing to Dr. Johnson, in 1776, says, " There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man...happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn." It would really appear that " There is no new thing under the sun." Boswell wrote his remarks nearly... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 oldal
...\. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed. Ibid. Part ii. * There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,...happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn. — JOHNSON. Barnett's Life (1766). Archbishop Leighton used often to say, that if he were to choose... | |
 | 1873 - 860 oldal
...more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." Boswell adds, that Johnson then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines : — " Whoe'er has... | |
 | 1876 - 938 oldal
...his rapid and magnificent mouthfuls of fish-sauce and veal-pie with plums, " There is nothing, sir, which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn"? If he said it behind the screen at St. John's Gate, or outside the eating-house window in Porridge... | |
 | 1875 - 438 oldal
...dramatists, and even the moralists, speak in the same way. Johnson says: "There is nothing which has been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." Archbishop Leighton said, if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn. The gentle Geoffrey... | |
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