 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 páginas
...with great emotion, Shenstone's lines : " Whoe'er has travcll'd lift's dull round, Where'er his stagjs may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest weleom; a! an inn*." My illustrious friend, I thought, did not sufficiently admire Shenstone. That... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...to win; It buys what, courts have not in store, It buys me freedom at an inn. Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been. May sigh to think he still has found His warmest welcome at an inn. JAMES SHIRLEY. {From The Contention of Ajax and Ulyssti.] DEATH THE... | |
 | Piomingo - 1833 - 340 páginas
...Where.er hissrajres may Imve t cent Maysigh to think he still has- fiHiiid The wannest welcome at on inn. Frank. A savage life was the object of Johnson's unconquerable aversion. Piomingo, Johnson was a lion in chains: his strong mind was fettered by invincible prejudices. If a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 páginas
...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, Where'er...think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn."(2) My illustrious friend, I thought, did not sufficiently admire Shenstone. That ingenious and... | |
 | Charles Valentine De Grice - 1836 - 322 páginas
...chief antipathies were to cards and dancing. The origin of that well-known verse, Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been,...he still has found, The warmest welcome at an inn, is amusing. Shenstone happened, I think in 1750, to visit his old Oxford friend Mr. Whistler. But Friendship... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 páginas
...particu(1) [The lines in the corrected edition of Shenstone's works run thus : " Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been,...he still has found, The warmest welcome at an inn. "] larly from Pope. Among the many I have had the pleasure of hearing him recite, the conclusion of... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1836 - 422 páginas
...that well-known verse, Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have heen, May sigh to think he still has found, The warmest welcome at an inn, is amusing. Shenstone happened, I think in 1750, to visit his old Oxford friend Mr. Whistler. But Friendship... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1837 - 716 páginas
...brief essay on the enjoyment of an inn, by the following appropriate lines : — Who'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still hag found, His warmest welcome at an Inn. Yet, as there is no general rule without an exception, I... | |
 | 1842 - 584 páginas
...pencil : — " Who'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may ha»e been, May MLfh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn." It is said that Archbishop Leighton long expressed an earnest hope that he should die at an inn —... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1840 - 426 páginas
...wrote those oft-quoted lines, which are a sad libel upon English hospitality — Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been,...he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn. There are other stanzas less known, but they are all in the same strain ; if Shenstone meant and felt... | |
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Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn. 
