 | 1856 - 374 pagina’s
...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 of an immediate...reward 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... | |
 | 1896 - 940 pagina’s
...which won the admiration of his own age, and remain as recommendations to the reverence of posterity. " No, Sir ! there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness has been produced ' aa by a good tavern." JOHNSON. That Johnson frequented the Cheshire Cheese there... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 464 pagina’s
...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 of an immediate...then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines : 1 By Dr Evans.—C. " Whoe'er has travel!' d life's dull round, "Where'er his stages may have been,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 pagina’s
...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 of an immediate...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... | |
 | Francis Meredith - 1860 - 326 pagina’s
...money, a hotel is a very comfortable place ; although, perhaps, the opinion of the great doctor, that " there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man...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... | |
 | 1864 - 412 pagina’s
...house in which people can enjoy 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... | |
 | Vanity church - 1861 - 372 pagina’s
...the more good things you call for, the more welcome you are. No, Sir, there is nothing which has as yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." — SAMUEL JOHNSON. ALMOST in the centre of the little town of Kirkham stands an inn called the " Blue... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 622 pagina’s
...tavern chair was the 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... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1862 - 350 pagina’s
...freedom from anxiety — in a private house no servants will attend with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. The Doctor was wont to assert that a tavern chair was the throne of human felicity, and often quoted... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pagina’s
...former bounty fed ; On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. INN. — There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,...happiness is produced, as by a good "tavern or inn. BOSWELL'S Johnson, March, 1778. Shall I not take mine ease at mine inn ? SHAESPERE.— King Heury IV.... | |
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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... 
