 | James Boswell - 1851 - 326 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." 1 He then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines : " Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round,... | |
 | 1852 - 460 pagina’s
...reward in proportion as they please. No, sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by men, 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 hare... | |
 | 1852 - 248 pagina’s
...reward in proportion as they please. No, sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by men, 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,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 pagina’s
...reward in proportion as they please. No, sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by men, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.' lie then repeated with great emotion Shenstone's lines : " ' Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round,... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 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." Archbishop Leighton used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pagina’s
...in proportion as they please. No, sir ; there it nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by E 3 which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. — Johnson. Receive no satisfaction lor premeditated impertinence ; forget it, forgive it, but keep... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 pagina’s
...reward in proportion as they please. No, sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by men, 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... | |
 | 1864 - 412 pagina’s
...themselves so well as at a capital ina. No, sir, there is nothing that has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn;" and Shenstone thought of such like hostels when he wrote — " Who e'er has .travelled earth's dull... | |
 | Francis Meredith - 1860 - 326 pagina’s
...perhaps, the opinion of the great doctor, that " there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn," is rather too strong. And I certainly incline to prefer one's own fireside, in spite of the further... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 622 pagina’s
...throne of human felicity." " There is nothing," he affirmed, "which has been yet contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn;" — and then he repeated, " with great emotion," Shenstone's lines; " Whoe'er has travell'd life's... | |
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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. 
