 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.  Johnsoniana.. - Page 89by James Boswell - 1820 - 178 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shenstone, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 318 pages
...win ; It buys, what courts have not in store, It buys me freedom at an Inn. 5 Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found I The warmest welcome at an Inn. ^ THE POET AND THE DUN. 1741. " These are messengers That feelingly... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...Lest thou should'st diseover the wreek thon hast made. Mrs. E. Oaka Smiti INN. Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to thin!, he still has found The warmest weleome at an inn. The white-wash'd wall, the nieely sanded floor,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Bestow upon my mind. Verses bu Stella. WILLIAM SHENSTONE. 1714-1763. Written on the Window of an Inn. Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round Where'er his...may have been, May sigh to think he still has found His warmest welcome at an inn. Jemmy Dawson. For seldom shall you hear a tale So sad, so tender, and... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...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 good tavern or inn. — Johnson. Receive no satisfaction lor premeditated impertinence ; forget it, forgive it, but keep... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 444 pages
...iun. Here waiter ! take my sordid ore, Which lacqueys else might hope to win ; Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he -tIII has found The warmest weleome at an iun. The statement of Mr. Graves, that the lines were written... | |
 | 1857 - 366 pages
...looked at me and sighed: " So tenderly reared, nursed in affluence — God -help her! " 6* CHAPTER IX. " Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, Many sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an Inn." WE had thus far enjoyed a reasonable... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 464 pages
...the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness...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 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...with great emotion Shenstone's lines : "'Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found... | |
 | Francis Meredith - 1860 - 326 pages
...comfortable place ; although, perhaps, the opinion of the great doctor, that " there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much 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... | |
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