 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 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 traveU'd life's dull round.... | |
 | Science - 1873 - 716 pages
...speedily spread ; for is it not Dr. Samuel Johnson himself who lias, perhaps rather sweepingly aaid, " there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man...happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or Inn." Where a long slope towards the north begins soon after Finch's, a village entitled Dundurn was once... | |
 | 1874 - 588 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 travelled life's dull round,... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 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." In the afternoon, as they were being whirled rapidly along in the chaise, Johnson exclaimed with fervour,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...welcomeryou 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,... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 482 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." In the afternoon, as they were being whirled rapidly along in the chaise, Johnson exclaimed with fervour,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...St. 11. A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embry0. Ibid. St. 28. 1 There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. — Johnson, Bosweirs Life, 1766. Archbishop Leighton often said, that if he were to choose a place... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of immediate reward in proportion as they please. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. As soon as I enter the door of a tavern I experience... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...and so true. Jemmy Dawson. 1 Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. R. Gifford, Contemplation. 3 There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. — Johnson, BorweWs L ife, 1766. Archbishop Leighton often said, that if he were to choose a place... | |
 | Thomas Allan Croal - Transportation - 1877 - 652 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." Many modern writers, just before the railway system was introduced, dwelt fondly upon the pleasures... | |
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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. 
