| English literature - 1852 - 248 pages
...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,... | |
| Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 252 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...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... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 378 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...is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by £ 3 which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. — Johnson. CCV. Receive no satisfaction... | |
| Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 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 it nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by E 3 which so much happiness is produced as by a... | |
| 1896 - 940 pages
...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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 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...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1861 - 622 pages
...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... | |
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