 | James Boswell - 1820 - 542 pages
...welcomer you are. No ser, vants.will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."* * Sir John Hawkins has preserved very few Memorabilia of Johnson. There is, however, to b« found in... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 372 pages
...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...nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so mnch happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."* He then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone'tt... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 384 pages
...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 is nothing Avhich has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 372 pages
...welcouier 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...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."* He then repeated, with great emotion, Sheustone's lines — «« Whoe'er has travelled life's dull... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 378 pages
...welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion...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,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 472 pages
...welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." 5 He then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines : " Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round,... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1822 - 222 pages
...There is nothing," said he to BOSWELL, when they stopped together at Chapel House in Oxfordshire, " which has yet been contrived by man by which so much...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." Surely it is a prostitution of language, as well as a dangerous incentive to the worst passions of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - Table-talk - 1825 - 370 pages
...welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters o 3 do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward, in proportion...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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 430 pages
...welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or innc." He theii repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines : Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...welcomer you are. No servants 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 ¡«nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good... | |
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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. 
