 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 436 pages
...inn. Here waiter ! take my sordid ore, Which lacqueys else might hope to win ; 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. The statement of Mr. Graves, that the lines were... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 444 pages
...iun. Here waiter ! take my sordid ore, Which lacqueys else might hope to win ; Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he -tIII has found The warmest weleome at an iun. The statement of Mr. Graves, that the lines were... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 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. of GHAT appears to us to be the best letter-writer... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Berkshire (England) - 1860 - 292 pages
...of | glass in a parlour window of theRed Lion, Shenstone wrote the lines — " Whoe'er bas travetl'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think ümt he has found His warmest welcome at an inn." Henley (from Hen, old, and Lye, place, anciently... | |
 | James Bell Forsyth - Middle East - 1861 - 216 pages
...is Shenstone, I believe, who makes an observation, in verse, which I have seen often quoted : — " Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think, he oft has found The warmest welcome at an Inn," Now, I allude to this, not to complain of my reception... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...SHAESPERE.— King Heury IV. Part I. Act III. Scene 8. (Falstaff to the Hostess.; 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. SHENSTONE. — Written at an Inn at Heuley. Along... | |
 | Surrey Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1864 - 456 pages
...the inns of Southwark to which the poet Shenstone's lines will hardly apply. " 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." 14 From a communication by JO Halliwell, Esq., FSA... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 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 fonnd The warmest welcome at an inn." Sir John Hawkins has preserved very few memorabilia... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. The Gamester. Act iii. Se. 4. WILLIAM SHENSTONE. 1714-1763. Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found His warmest welcome at an iun.* Written on the Window of an Iun. So sweetly she... | |
 | Frederick Locker- Lampson - 1867 - 380 pages
...thick or thin, Secure to meet, at close of day, With kind reception at an Inn. Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been,...how oft he found The warmest welcome — at an Inn. William Shenstone. CLVIIL As t'other day o'er the green meadow I pass'd, A swain overtook me, and held... | |
| |
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. 
