 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...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.... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 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,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1865 - 792 pages
...the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn ;' and Boswell quotes Sir John Hawkins as reporting Johnson thus : — ' As soon as I enter the door... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...St. 11. A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo. Ibid. St. 28. * There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced, ns by a good tavern or inn. — JOHKSON. Boswelts Life, (1766.) Archbishop Leighton used often to say,... | |
 | John Greville Fennell - Fishing - 1867 - 502 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." TOUBIST-ANGLElt'.S UL'IDE. 35 SHIPLAKE. Station Master, Mr. J. DAIOES. Distance from London, 333 milm.... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 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. DR. JOHNSON. WHOE'ER has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 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. 12 THE MARRIED STATE. Marriage is the best state for man in general; and every man is a worse man,... | |
 | George Canning Hill - Country life - 1867 - 354 pages
...On the subject of inns, Dr. Johnson's dictum may be worth quoting again: — "No, sir," said he, " there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." And he was fond of repeating Shenstone's well-known lines in support of his sentiment : — " Whoe'er... | |
 | George Canning Hill - Country life - 1867 - 358 pages
...On the subject of inns, Dr. Johnson's dictum may be worth quoting again : — " No, sir," said he, " there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." And he was fond of repeating Shenstone's well-known lines in support of his sentiment : — " Whoe'er... | |
 | Book - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1868 - 284 pages
...he has deserved it, and been thereby rewarded. Boswell, in writing to Dr. Johnson, in 1776, says, " There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man...happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn." It would really appear that " There is no new thing under the sun." Boswell wrote his remarks nearly... | |
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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. 
