 ... everybody should be easy ; in the nature of things it cannot be : there must always be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no man, but a...  Table-talk on Books, Men, and Manners - Página 40editado por - 1853 - 229 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 páginas
...plenty of good things, ever so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that everybody should be easy, in the nature of things it cannot...The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests—the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him; and no man, but a very impudent dog indeed,... | |
 | 1874 - 588 páginas
..."take his ease at his inn.' " There is no private house," said Johnson, talking on this subject, " in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern. Let there be ever so great a plenty of good things, ever so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that everbody... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 páginas
...or considering them as naturally incident to our state of life. TAVERJM£. 'HERE is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at...grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that everybody should be easy ; in the nature of things it cannot be : there must always be some degree... | |
 | Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 642 páginas
...French for not having, in any perfection, the tavern life. " There is no private house," said he, " in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at...grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that everybody should be easy, in the nature of things it cannot be ; there must always be some degree of... | |
 | 1877 - 664 páginas
...life. Dr. Johnson gives the pith of the matter in the well-known words : " There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at...ever so great plenty of good things, ever so much desire that everybody should be easy, in the nature of things it cannot be ; there must always be some... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 páginas
...French for not having, in any perfection, the tavern life. "There is no private house," said he, " in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at...grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that everybody should be easy, in the nature of things it cannot be : there must always be some degree of... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1883 - 388 páginas
...French for not having, in any perfection, the tavern life. ' There is no private house,' said he, ' in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at....grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that everybody should be easy; in the nature of things it cannot be: there must always be some degree of... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 páginas
...325. All injury is either of the person, the rtune, or the fame. — Life. There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at...grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that everybody should be easy, in the nature of things it cannot be : there "Jury fortune, or the fame.... | |
 | James John Hissey - 1885 - 456 páginas
...like this' (he was addressing Boswell, who was staying with him there). ' Let there be ever so great a plenty of good things, ever so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that every guest should be easy, in the nature of things it cannot be ; there must always be some degree of care... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 544 páginas
...the French for not having, in any perfection, the tavern life. " There is no private house (said he,) in which people can enjoy themselves so well, as at...grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that everybody should be easy ; in the nature of things it cannot be : there must always be some degree... | |
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