 | Peter Thompson - 1999 - 280 strani
...things you call for, the weleomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which servants do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please" (Life of Johnson, 697). 8. Provincial Council, Oct. 28, 1756, 7:340. For a description of this quartering... | |
 | A. E. Hotchner - 2004 - 266 strani
...welcome; and the mare noise you make the mare trouble you give, the mare things you call far, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity...incited by the prospect of an immediate reward in propartion as they please. No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been cantrived by man, by which... | |
 | Norman Harrison - 242 strani
...fellowship, good ale and good conversation resulted in a memorable afternoon... as far as I can recall. "There is nothing which has yet been contrived by...so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern." I felt it felicitous to remark, finding once again one of the Dr J's bon mots entirely apposite. We... | |
 | June Brown - 2006 - 240 strani
...Map: 2 Hunter's Hotel has adopted Samuel Johnson's words as a creed and they certainly describe it: "There is nothing which has yet been contrived by...by which so much happiness is produced as by a good inn." Dating back to the 1720s, the hotel retains its old-world charm with creaking wooden floorboards,... | |
 | Mark Kingwell - 2007 - 262 strani
...Well, it is for people who like drinks. That is, those happy creatures who agree with Dr. Johnson that "there is nothing which has yet been contrived by...so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern"; who think, sometimes anyway, that a barstool may be considered "the throne of human felicity." More... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1928 - 660 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,...by which so much happiness is produced as by a good inn." Another writer, whose name is unrecorded or lost in the sweep of time, has said that the tavern... | |
 | 1922 - 950 strani
...the more noise you make the more trouble you give, the more good things you call lor, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity...they please. No, Sir, there is nothing which has yet Ьеел contrived by man by which so much happiness has been produced as by a good tavern or inn,"... | |
 | 1906 - 670 strani
...Europe. Dr. Johnson, a man not very easily pleased, has left his opinion on record when he said, " There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,...which so much happiness is produced "as by a good inn." Shcnstonc, too, wrote on one of the hotel windows at Henley : " Whoe'er has travell'd life's... | |
 | 1890 - 774 strani
...the more noise you make, the more trouble yon give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do ; who are incited by the pros pect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. No, sir, there is nothing which has... | |
 | Moses King - 1895 - 734 strani
...CITY." "KING'S HANDBOOK OF BOSTON," Etc., Etc. 1894-1895. BOSTON, MASS. PUBLISHED BY MOSES KING. " There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which as much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." — DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. The first section... | |
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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. 
