 | Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 652 Seiten
...you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 Seiten
...you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward...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,... | |
 | Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey - 1879 - 466 Seiten
...so well as at a capital tavern ; and no servants will attend you with the alacrity that waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward, in proportion as they please." ' When our fleets are detained for a lengthened period in remote foreign harbours, the energy and spirit... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1880 - 730 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 an immediate reward...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.' He then repeated, with great emotion, Shcnstone's lines:— ' Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round,... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 Seiten
...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...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 for... | |
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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. 
