 | Literature - 1921 - 864 pages
...tells us, that Shenstone scratched on a window pane his eulogy of inns in general: Whoe'er has traveled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found His warmest welcome at an inn. The 'Lion' has been much altered of late years; one... | |
 | James Boswell - 1844 - 370 pages
...tavern or inn."(') He then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines : " Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn."(s) My illustrious friend, I thought, did not sufficiently... | |
 | American periodicals - 1872 - 862 pages
...then repeated, with great emotion, we are told, Sheiij tone's lines — " Whoe'er has travelled life'e dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn." And Mr. Boswell goes ou to say : " We happened to... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1847 - 454 pages
...Which lacqueys else might hope to win ; It buys what courts have not in store,— It buys me freedom at an inn. Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round,...Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn." Ere, however, quitting the grounds to buy freedom... | |
 | James Thorne - Thames River (England) - 1847 - 480 pages
...tavern or inn.' He then repeated with great emotion Shenstone's lines : — ' Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think be still lias found The warmest welcome at an inn.' " * A good deal of virtuous indignation has been... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 328 pages
...is produced, as by a good tavern or inn." He then repeated with great emotion Shenstone's lines : " Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn." * " Sir John Hawkins," says Boswell in a note on... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 872 pages
...beautiful lines written by him in the inn at Henley, and repeated with emotion by Dr. Johnson: — " Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think that he has found Hia warmest welcome at an inn." I don't say this, gentlemen. It is, I suspect, a... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1851 - 438 pages
...Which lacqueys else might hope to win ; It buys what courts have not in store, — It buys me freedom at an inn. "Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round,...Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn." Ere, however, quitting the grounds to buy freedom... | |
 | 1851 - 492 pages
...respectable hotels. CHAPTER XXVH. HOTEL AND TAVERN ACCOMMODATION. Whoe'er has rravell'd over Kfe's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The wannest welcome is an inn. — SHENSTONE. London, profuse in every thing, is... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...ore, Which lackeys else might hope to win ; It buys what courts have not in store, It buys me freedom at an Inn. Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round,...Where'er his stages may have been, „, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an Inn. /nit SCittoa nf GEAT appears to us to be the best... | |
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Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn. 
