 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. No...  Boswell's Life of Johnson - Stran 274avtor: James Boswell - 1917 - 574 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 strani
...St. 11. A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embry0. Ibid. St. 28. 1 There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. — Johnson, Bosweirs Life, 1766. Archbishop Leighton often said, that if he were to choose a place... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 strani
...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,...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. As soon as I enter the door of a tavern I experience... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 strani
...and so true. Jemmy Dawson. 1 Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. R. Gifford, Contemplation. 3 There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. — Johnson, BorweWs L ife, 1766. Archbishop Leighton often said, that if he were to choose a place... | |
 | Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 642 strani
...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 prospect...happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn." Many modern writers, just before the railway system was introduced, dwelt fondly upon the pleasures... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Scadding - 1878 - 652 strani
...speedily spread ; for is it not Dr. Samuel Johnson himself who has, perhaps rather sweepingly said, " there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." Where a long slope towards the north begins soon after Finch's a village entitled Dundurn was once... | |
 | William Walters - 1878 - 128 strani
...in three words, — health, peace, and competence." And BOSWELL reports Dr. JOHNSON as saying that " there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." But I must not attempt to enumerate the several opinions of men on this subject. What is of more importance,... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1880 - 730 strani
...IN one of his oracular and sententious utterances, Dr. Johnson declared that " there is nothing that has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." But, inasmuch as Boswell tells us that this opinion was pronounced just after the great doctor had... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 strani
...and so true. Jemmy Dawson. 1 Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. R. Gifford, Contemplation, 2 There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.—Johnson, Boswelfs Lif,, 1766. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems right meet of... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1883 - 388 strani
...more good things you call for, the welcomer you arc. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do who are incited by the prospect of...tavern or inn.' He then repeated, with great emotion, Shcnstone's lines:— ' Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been,... | |
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