 | 1895 - 698 pagine
...be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests, the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him ; and no...make, the more trouble you give; the more good things yon call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do,... | |
 | 1895 - 416 pagine
...be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him ; and no...a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. DR. JOHNSON. HERE, waiter ! take my sordid ore, Which lacqueys else might hope to win ; It buys what... | |
 | Johan Frederik Breda Storm - 1896 - 764 pagine
...cur, etc. Ebenso Johnson: „what, is it you, you dogs \ I'll have a frisk with you14, Bosw. 68 N. No man, but a very impudent dog indeed, can as freely...is in another man's house, as if it were his own, 278. If you were not an idle dog, 337. He's a whig, sir, a sad dog, 371. Smollett Rand. 366 : The celebrated... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 548 pagine
...be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no...impudent dog indeed can as freely command what is in another's house as if it were his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety.... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 546 pagine
...be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no...impudent dog indeed can as freely command what is in another's house as if it were his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety.... | |
 | 1900 - 1174 pagine
...make no apology for commencing this paper with a quotation from Boswell's Life. "No man," said he, "but a very impudent dog indeed, can as freely command what is in another man's house as if it was his own. At a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome : and... | |
 | Thomas Wilson Reid - 1901 - 282 pagine
...be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests, the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him ; and no...the more noise you make, the more trouble you give " (we should remember that this was said in the rougher world of the last century), " the more good... | |
 | 1902 - 324 pagine
...by Chaucer or perhaps by Dr. Johnson, who said that one of the characteristics of an inn was that " You are sure you are welcome, and the more noise you...trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the more welcome you are " ; to prove which statement it is related that he repeated with much emotion... | |
 | William Outram Tristam - 1903 - 406 pagine
...no one but a very impudent dog can as freely command what is in another man's house as if he were in his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom...trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the \velcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1905 - 320 pagine
...some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests — the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him ; and no...freely command what is in another man's house as if it was his own. Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome;... | |
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The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no man, but a very impudent dog indeed, can as freely command what is in another man's house, as if it were his own. Whereas, at a tavern,... 
