| Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - London (England) - 1824 - 388 pages
...been so often said— Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, Must sigh to think he still has found His warmest welcome at an inn. SHENSTONE. THE CLOTH WORKERS. The cloth workers' company is the last in the order of precedence of... | |
| William Kitchiner - Cab and omnibus service - 1827 - 326 pages
...near it. INNS. " Whoe'er has Travell'd Life's dull round, Whate'er his Fortunes may have been, Will sigh to think he still has found His warmest Welcome at an Inn," PROTESTS poet Shenstone; and our Philosopher Johnson, (his biographer, Boswell, tells us,) pronounced... | |
| James Hall - Literary Criticism - 1828 - 404 pages
...of the poet— Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Whate'er his various course has been, Will sigh to think he still has found His warmest welcome at an inn. THE END. LONDON: SHACKELL AiND BAYLIS, JOHNSON's-COUHT, FLEET STKEET. Just Published, in 2 vols, 8vo.... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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 His warmest welcome at an inn. JAMES SHIRLEY. {From The Contention of Ajax and Ulyssti.] DEATH THE LEVELLER. THE glories of our birth... | |
| Literature - 1921 - 864 pages
...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 can no longer drive under the archway to the coachyard... | |
| William Gaspey - London (England) - 1851 - 496 pages
...frequently quoted — " Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may hare heen, Must sigh to think he still has found His warmest welcome at an inn !" The Clothworkers' Company were incorporated by Edward VI., in 1482, under the name of the " Fraternity... | |
| English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...Shenstone's lines : •" " ' Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may hare been, May sigh to think he still has found His warmest welcome at an inn.' "* Johnson was so fond of this little poem, that Miss Reynolds (sister of Sir Joshua) said she had... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...the Window of 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 His warmest welcome at an inn. Jemmy Dawson. For seldom shall you hear a tale So sad, so tender, and so true. The Schoolmistress.... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 828 pages
...and windows. * " Whoe'er has traveled life's dull round, Whate'er his stages may have been, Must nigh to think he still has found His warmest welcome at an inn." The inns of England, however, are not the hospices of poverty. The alehouses are die resorts of the... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 pages
...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 His warmest welcome at an inn.' "• Johnson was so fond of this little poem, that Miss Reynolds (sister of Sir Joshua) said she had... | |
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