 WINDOW GLEANINGS. SHENSTONE has furnished a quatrain, which is often inscribed on the windows of inns, by those who wish to flatter their host, and have not the genius to pay him an original compliment. " Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er...  Relics of Literature - Pagina 319door Reuben Percy - 1823 - 400 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pagina’s
...produced as by a good tavern or inn *". He then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines: " Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, " Where'er his stages may have been, " May sigh to think he still has found " The warmest welcome at an inn." * Sir John Hawkins (says Mr.... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1811 - 456 pagina’s
...Faat. The following lines from Shenstone, are often scribbled on inn windows: Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been,...he still has found, The warmest welcome at an inn. The following parody is written beneath the above lines, at an inn in the West: Whoe'er has travelled... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 pagina’s
...produced as by a good tavern or inn *". He then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines: " Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, • ' " Where'er his stages may have been,. . i ../.' " May sigh to think he still has found , .-.,.. " The warmest welcome at an inn." * Sir John... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1819 - 396 pagina’s
...lackeys else might hope to win; It buys, what courts have not in store, - It buy&THS freedom at an Inn. Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an Inn. Jl SIMILE. WHAT village but has... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 386 pagina’s
...lackeys else might hope to win; It buys, what courts have not in store, It buys me freedom at an Inn. Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an Inn. A SIMILE. WHAT village but has... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pagina’s
...is produced as by a good tavern or inn."' He then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines: " Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn." a My illustrious friend, I thought,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 pagina’s
...lackeys else might hope to win ; It buys, what courts have not in store, It buys me freedom at an Inn. Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an Inn. A SIMILE. WHAT village but has... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pagina’s
...what courts have not in store, It buys me freedom at an inn. Which lacqueys else might hope to win; Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn. Travelling renders us sociable;... | |
 | 1828 - 348 pagina’s
...recollected Shenstone's complimentary lines on an inn, but could not apply them on the present occasion: " Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think that he has found The warmest welcome at an inn f." The road from Haverford to Newgin... | |
 | John Jacob (of Guernsey.) - 1830 - 600 pagina’s
...from falsehood's specious grin," Freedom I love, and form 1 hate, And choose my lodgings at an inn. Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn." Written at an inn at Henley, Oxfbrdthire*... | |
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