...produced as by a good tavern or inn."(') He then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines : " Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er...think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn."(2) My illustrious friend, I thought, did not sufficiently admire Shenstone. That ingenious and...

...particu(1) [The lines in the corrected edition of Shenstone's works run thus : " Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been,...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...

...chief antipathies were to cards and dancing. The origin of that well-known verse, Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been,...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...

...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...

...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...

...life, a kind of stranger on the earth, and will feel inclined to exclaim, with the amiable Shenstane. Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er...was the object of Johnson's unconquerable aversion. Piominnu. Johnson was a lion in chains; his strong mind was fettered by invincible prejudices. If a...

...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 —...

...wrote those oft-quoted lines, which are a sad libel upon English hospitality — Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been,...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...

...thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot or humble inn. » * • « * * * "Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been,...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,...

...roadside inn, which, more often than otherwise, was clean, warm, and comfortable. Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages 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...