 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 σελίδες
...profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author 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. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author Punctuality... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1920 - 274 σελίδες
...the shell of it. Not now, is as once was it, the proof of Dr. Samuel Johnson's Boswell-quoted remark: "There is nothing which has yet been contrived by...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." George Simmons in " Roadside Sketches," The Evening Star, December 5, 1891, has: "Forty years ago the... | |
 | 1920 - 642 σελίδες
...easy, in the nature of things it cannot be; there must always be some degree of care and anxiety. . . . There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,...with great emotion, Shenstone's lines: "Whoe'er has travel'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found... | |
 | Richard Merritt, Nancy Butler, Michael Power - 1996 - 260 σελίδες
...28-9. CHAPTER EIGHT EARLY INNS AND TAVERNS Accommodation, Fellowship, and Good Cheer Richard D. Merritt There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.1 Samuel Johnson's tribute to eighteenth-century inns sums up the importance attributed to the... | |
 | John L. Cotter, Daniel G. Roberts, Michael Parrington - 1992 - 563 σελίδες
...servant will attend you with alacrity which waiters do, who are incited bv the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. No, sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man bv which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. — Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 σελίδες
...There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern. . . . Dragon of Ihe Apocatypseby Frederick Carter." in London...repr. in Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. И. Law SAMUEL IOHNSON 1 1 709-84). English aulhor. lexicographer. Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel... | |
 | Stephen Mennell - 1996 - 412 σελίδες
...noise you make, the more trouble you give the more good things you call for, the wclcomcryou arc. . . . No, Sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. ' (Boswell, 1791 : 1, 650) Such a means of escape from the anxieties Johnson describes would have been... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 σελίδες
...4 There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern.... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. Quoted in lames Boswell, Life of Dr. ¡ohnson,... | |
 | Peter Thompson - 1999 - 280 σελίδες
...private house, (said he), in which people can enjoy themselves so well, as at a capital tavern. . . . No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."3 The great lexicographer may have been aware of the precise distinction between a tavern and... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 σελίδες
...is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other. 5088 Boswell - Life nno8` 5089 Boswell - Life Marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made... | |
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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. 
