 | Arthur Dudley Pierce - 1960 - 352 pagine
...Lee's courtern in recent years. martial was planned, still an inn. VII CRADLES OF REVOLT: THE TAVERNS "There is nothing which has yet been contrived by...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn," declared the eminent Samuel Johnson. It is a good guess that he soon qualified that opinion.... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pagine
...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,...much 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... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1920 - 274 pagine
...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...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." George Simmons in " Roadside Sketches," The Evening Star, December 5, 1891, has: "Forty years... | |
 | 1920 - 642 pagine
...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,...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." He then repeated with great emotion, Shenstone's lines: "Whoe'er has travel'd life's dull round,... | |
 | Richard Merritt, Nancy Butler, Michael Power - 1996 - 260 pagine
...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 pagine
...the welcomer you are. No servant will attend you with alacrity which waiters do, who are incited bv the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion...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 pagine
...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...1930; repr. in Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. И inn. SAMUEL IOHNSON 1 1 709-84). English aulhor. lexicographer. Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel... | |
 | Stephen Mennell - 1996 - 412 pagine
...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...much 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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pagine
...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...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. Quoted in lames Boswell, Life of Dr.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pagine
...is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other. 5088 Boswell - Life nno8` inn. 5089 Boswell - Life Marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all... | |
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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. 
