 | John Greville Fennell - 1867 - 502 páginas
...the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 páginas
...the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity...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 Rolfe - 1867 - 404 páginas
...make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servant will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do,...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... | |
 | George Canning Hill - 1867 - 354 páginas
...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 - 354 páginas
...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... | |
 | Book - 1868 - 284 páginas
...he has deserved it, and been thereby rewarded. Boswell, in writing to Dr. Johnson, in 1776, says, " There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man...happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn." It would really appear that " There is no new thing under the sun." Boswell wrote his remarks nearly... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 páginas
...And there a chancellor in embryo. Ibid. St. 2&. 1 There is nothing which has yet been contrived by mm by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. — Johnson, Boswelfs Lift, 1766. Archbishop Leighton often said, that if he were to choose a place... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 páginas
...\. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed. Ibid. Part ii. * There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,...happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn. — JOHNSON. Barnett's Life (1766). Archbishop Leighton used often to say, that if he were to choose... | |
 | 1873 - 860 páginas
...more noise you make and the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." Boswell adds, that Johnson then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines : — " Whoe'er has... | |
 | 1876 - 938 páginas
...his rapid and magnificent mouthfuls of fish-sauce and veal-pie with plums, " There is nothing, sir, which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn"? If he said it behind the screen at St. John's Gate, or outside the eating-house window in Porridge... | |
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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. 
