 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1877 - 522 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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...much 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... | |
 | William Walters - 1878 - 128 σελίδες
...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,...much 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... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 σελίδες
...trouble you 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...much happiness is 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,... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1880 - 730 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1883 - 384 σελίδες
...trouble you 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...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.' He then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines : — ' Whoe'er has travell'd life's... | |
 | 1885 - 320 σελίδες
...2Q, BOTJ-yiBIRIIE! ST., FULEET ST., EO " Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn?"— Shakespeare. " There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."— Bomell't Life of Johnson. YE OLDE CHESHIRE CHEESE, WINE OFFICE COURT, FLEET STREET, LONDON,... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 σελίδες
...of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. Ibid. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. An. 177G. All this (wealth) excludes but one evil, — poverty. An. 1777. Claret is the liquor... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 σελίδες
...trouble you 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...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."'' He then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines : 1 By Dr. Evans.—Croker. " Whoe'er... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 σελίδες
...trouble you 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...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." " He then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines : 1 By Dr. Evans.— Croker. 3 Sir... | |
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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. 
