 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 strani
...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...; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by men, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.' lie then repeated with great... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 strani
...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,...is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by £ 3 which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. — Johnson. CCV. Receive no satisfaction... | |
 | 1856 - 374 strani
...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,...reward in proportion as they please. No, sir ; there it nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by E 3 which so much happiness is produced as by a... | |
 | 1896 - 940 strani
...which won the admiration of his own age, and remain as recommendations to the reverence of posterity. " No, Sir ! there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness has been produced ' aa by a good tavern." JOHNSON. That Johnson frequented the Cheshire Cheese there... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 strani
...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...sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by men, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.' He then repeated with great... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1862 - 350 strani
...In a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety — in a private house no servants will attend with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited...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 Bartlett - 1865 - 504 strani
...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,... | |
 | 1871 - 692 strani
...longing glances ahead in search of an eligible tavern, for I thoroughly agree with Dr. Johnson that "there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much [MAR. happiness is produced as by a good tavern." I had come up with a thumping lout of a young peasant,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 strani
...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, who are incited by the prospect of immediate reward in proportion as they please. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1877 - 522 strani
...style. RESTAURANT — the Tavern. " Sir," said Dr. Johnson to Boswell, " there is nothing which has been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern ;" and on the same occasion — the date is 1776 — expatiating " on the felicity of England in its... | |
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... were his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome : and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. 
