 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...freedom from anxiety — in a private house no servants will attend with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. The Doctor was wont to assert that a tavern chair was the throne of human felicity, and often quoted... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 800
...you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward...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,... | |
 | 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 792
...things you call for. the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward...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 - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...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 Rolfe - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...you call for, the welcomer you are. No servant will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward...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 think... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 158
...you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward...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,... | |
 | John Greville Fennell - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 502
...you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward...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.... | |
 | George Canning Hill - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...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 - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...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... | |
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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. 
