...prospects. JOHNSON. " I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild...But Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which 256 a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England ! " ' Bosweii-s Life of j<,/uum,...

...the scenery of the Highlands as dismal and hideous. Johnson, we know, laid it down as an axiom that " the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England "—a saying which throws much doubt on his distinction that the Giant's Causeway was "worth seeing...

...and parcel of her very atmosphere. Remember, my countrymen, it was an English growler who said that " The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England." Though said in earnest and in irony this was never true, and, from both the facts and circumstances...

...desired to attend to the noble prospect from the Castlehill, he replied, " Sir. the noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to London." This lively sarcasm was thrown out at a tavern in London, in my presence, many years before....

...desired to attend to the noble prospect from the Castlehill, he replied, " Sir. the noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to London." This lively sarcasm was thrown out at a tavern in London, in my presence, many years before....

...prospects. JOHNSON : * believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; < P < I9 high-road that leads him to England !" This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause....

...the scenery of the Highlands as dismal and hideous. Johnson, we know, laid it down as an axiom that " the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England" — a saying which throws much doubt on his distinction that the Giant's Causeway was "worth seeing...

...noble prospects : " I believe, sir, you have a great many ; Norway, too, has noble wild prospects, and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild...sees, is the high road that leads him to England." Here, strangely enough, if Johnson had remembered the saying, the tour to the Hebrides was first started...

...Beattie. 1776. of the Highlands as dismal and hideous. Johnson, we know, laid it down as an axiom that " the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England " — a saying which throws much doubt on his distinction that the Giant's Causeway was "worth seeing...

...Harris, a coxcomb, 329; Sir! you know no more of our church than a Hottentot! 332 ; The noblest prospect a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to London, 336 ; Edinburgh Castle would make a good priian in England, INDSX. 336 ; " if you cannot talk...