 | James Boswell - 1887 - 500 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,... | |
 | 1887 - 480 pagina’s
...warmest wel'• 'foe at an inn." When Dr. Johnson said that nothing had yet been contrived by which *) much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn, he probably had in new, chiefly, the shelter and cheer offered by it to the traveller and stranger. But... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 578 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... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pagina’s
...Wooden Shoes. INNS — see Innkeeper, Taverns. There is nothing which lias yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. 2798 Johnson: BoswelVs Life of Johnson. 1778. (Routledge edition, Vol. ii. Ch. 14.) INSANITY. All power... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 pagina’s
...perfection the tavern life. . . . 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." — Ib., p. such as we expect them. He that has pictured a prospect upon his fancy, will receive little... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 pagina’s
...perfection the tavern life. . . . 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." — /£., p. such as we expect them. He that has pictured a prospect upon his fancy, will receive little... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pagina’s
...Wooden Shoes. INNS — see Innkeeper, Taverns. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inri. 2798 Johnson : Batwell's Life of Johnson. 1776. (Routledge edition, Vol. ii. Ch. 14.) INSANITY.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pagina’s
...reword in proportion as they please. No, Sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by and has a parThis passage does not appear in the printe...work, Dr. Grainger, or some of his friends, t sho Shenstone's lines : " Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round. Where'er his stages may have been, May... | |
 | Arthur Dudley Pierce - 1960 - 352 pagina’s
...an inn. VII CRADLES OF REVOLT: THE TAVERNS "There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn," declared the eminent Samuel Johnson. It is a good guess that he soon qualified that opinion. For the... | |
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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. 
