 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pagina’s
...in reciting verses, particu(1) [The lines in the corrected edition of Shenstone's works run thus : " Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er...he still has found, The warmest welcome at an inn. "] larly from Pope. Among the many I have had the pleasure of hearing him recite, the conclusion of... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1836 - 422 pagina’s
...that well-known verse, Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have heen, May sigh to think he still has found, The warmest welcome at an inn, is amusing. Shenstone happened, I think in 1750, to visit his old Oxford friend Mr. Whistler. But Friendship... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1837 - 716 pagina’s
...conclude this brief essay on the enjoyment of an inn, by the following appropriate lines : — Who'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still hag found, His warmest welcome at an Inn. Yet, as there is no general rule without an exception, I... | |
 | Ephraim Banks - 1838 - 436 pagina’s
...on the earth, and will feel inclined to exclaim, with the amiable Shenstane. Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been,...he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn. Frank. A savage life was the object of Johnson's unconquerable aversion. Piominnu. Johnson was a lion... | |
 | 1842 - 584 pagina’s
...pencil : — " Who'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may ha»e been, May MLfh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn." It is said that Archbishop Leighton long expressed an earnest hope that he should die at an inn —... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1840 - 426 pagina’s
...the poet Shenstone wrote those oft-quoted lines, which are a sad libel upon English hospitality — Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er...he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn. There are other stanzas less known, but they are all in the same strain ; if Shenstone meant and felt... | |
 | Edward Smallwood - 1840 - 106 pagina’s
...dice, and d'n ; Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot or humble inn. » * • « * * * "Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er...he still has found . The warmest welcome at an inn !" Tavern life, however, is not now what it was in former times ; in the days of Shakspeare, for instance,... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1891 - 1154 pagina’s
...discomforts was the roadside inn, which, more often than otherwise, was clean, warm, and comfortable. Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er...may have been, May sigh to think he still has found These miserable and dangerous roads, the ruts often by measurement four feet deep, with the wrecks... | |
 | 1882 - 324 pagina’s
...consented to take a Benefit, &c., &o. &c. ! &o. ! &c. ! LAYS OF A LAZY MINSTREL. A RIVERAIN RHYME. Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round — Where'er his stages may have been — May sigh to think thit he has found Ilia wettest weather at an inn. SHENSTONB. Edited by the Lazy One. BESIDE the river... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pagina’s
...tavern or inn 1." 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,...think he still has found The warmest welcome at an km'." My illustrious friend, I thought, did not sufficiently admire Shenstone. That ingenious and elegant... | |
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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. 
