...people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern like this. Let there be ever so great a plenty of good things, ever so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much A Per}orwancc an the Horn. desire that every guest should be easy, in the nature of things it cannot...

...island of Mull, and Blenheim park.' We dined at an excellent inn at Chapel-house, where he expatiated every body should be easy ; in the nature of things it cannot be : there must always be some degree...

...most of the other visitors to the house, the Doctor was delighted with his welcome, and " expatiated on the felicity of England in its taverns and inns,...enjoy themselves so well, as at a capital tavern. . . you are sure you are welcome : and the more noise you make, xvr GREAT TEW 383 yet been contrived...

...men as Johnson, Shenstone, and Hazlitt. Indeed, according to Boswell, Johnson repeatedly " expatiated on the felicity of England in its taverns and inns,...for not having, in any perfection, the tavern life." The freedom from " elegance " particularly pleased his somewhat slovenly nature. " At a tavern," he...

...dinner for which they had halted. Can we wonder that the worthy Doctor was eloquent ? I think not. "There is no private house," said he, "in which people can enjoy themselves so well as in a capital tavern. . . . No man but a very impudent dog indeed can as freely command what is in another...

...people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern like this. Let there be ever so great a plenty of good things, ever so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much A 1'erJontiaHce on the Horn. desire that every guest should be easy, in the nature 01 things it cannot...

...island of Mull, and Blenheim Park." We dined at an excellent inn at Chapel House, where he expatiated on the felicity of England in its taverns and inns,...he) in which people can enjoy themselves so well as in a capital tavern. Let there be ever so great plenty of good things, ever so much grandeur, ever...

...island of Mull, and Blenheim Park." We dined at an excellent inn at Chapel House, where he expatiated on the felicity of England in its taverns and inns,...having, in any perfection, the tavern life. " There is no-private house (said he) in which people can enjoy themselves so well as in a capital tavern. Let...

...island of Mull, and Blenheim-park." We dined at an excellent inn at Chapel-house, where he expatiated on the felicity of England in its taverns and inns,...grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that every body should be easy, in the nature of things it cannot be: there must always be some degree of...

...years or more ago, Dr. Johnson, at Chapel House, expatiated to Boswell " on the felicity of England in taverns and inns, and triumphed over the French for not having in any perfection the tavern life." He dwelt on the independence of the place, the alacrity of the attendance, the oblivion of care and...