 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pagina’s
...ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most...conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight." ' " Ibid. — Line 24 : On " inn " put the following note : — " 'We happened to lye this night at... | |
 | 1874 - 588 pagina’s
...ready to supply my wants: wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation, and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most...contradicted ; and in this conflict of opinion and sentiment I find delight.'" The following anecdote is highly to Johnson's credit, and equally worthy... | |
 | William Black - 1874 - 496 pagina’s
...sigh to think he still has found The wannest welcome at an inn. " And Mr. Boswell goes on to say : " We happened to lie this night at the inn at Henley, where Shenstone wrote these lines." Now, surely, if ever belated travellers had reason to expect a cordial welcome, it was we four as we... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pagina’s
...ready to supply my wants ; wine there exhilarates my spirits and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most...dogmatise and am contradicted ; and in this conflict of opinions and sentiments I find delight. TEJMPT/iTIOJM. To resist temptation once is not a sufficient... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 pagina’s
...prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love; I dogmatize and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight." — /Sir John Hawkins. RIDING IN A COACH. — In the afternoon, as we were driven rapidly along in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pagina’s
...ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most...conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight.'" 1 We happened to lie this night at the inn at Henley, where Shenstone wrote these lines ; which I give... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pagina’s
...ready to supply my wants. Wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation, and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love. I dogmatise, and am contradicted J and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight.'" hunger ; and not only was he remarkable... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1884 - 536 pagina’s
...prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love : I dogmatize and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight. This is a perfect picture of Johnson — a full-length portrait of him as he was at the Literary Club.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 pagina’s
...ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most...dogmatise and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinions and sentiments I find delight." ' Hawkins's Life of Johnson, p. 87. Tea: ' I REMEMBER when... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 544 pagina’s
...have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn."a * We happened to lye this night at the inn at Henley, where Shenstone wrote these lines. [The present " Red Lion."] Cor. et Ad. — Line 19 : On " inn," put the following note : — " Sir... | |
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... tavern, I experience an oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude: when I am seated, I find the master courteous, and the servants obsequious to my call; anxious to know and ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts... 
