 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pagina’s
...where the wood-pigeons breed. Ibid. Part ii. * There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much 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... | |
 | 1876 - 938 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1872 - 830 pagina’s
...sir," remarked Dr. Johnson to Mr. Boswell, " there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern...He then repeated, with great emotion, we are told, Shentone's lines — " Whoe'er has traveled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May... | |
 | 1877 - 602 pagina’s
...you call for the welcomer you are. No, sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." The old " Thunderer " was not backward in putting his maxims into practice, and passed many genial... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pagina’s
...reward in proportion as they please. No, sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. ' He then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines : * Whoe'er has traveU'd life's dull round. Where'er his stages may have been. May... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pagina’s
...reward in proportion as they please. No, sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. ' He then repeated, with greaS emotion, Shenstone's lines : ' \Vhoe'er has travcll'd life's dull round, Where'tT his stages... | |
 | 1873 - 714 pagina’s
...himself who lias, perhaps rather sweepmgly said, "there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn." Where a long slope towards the north begins soon after Finch's, a village entitled Dundurn wu once... | |
 | 1874 - 588 pagina’s
...reward in proportion as they please. No, sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced, as by a good...tavern or inn." He then repeated with great emotion Shenstone's lines : — "Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, "Where'er his stages may have been,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pagina’s
...reward, in proportion as they please. No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness 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... | |
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No, sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. 
