 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road tliat leads him to England !" [Mrs. Brooke (Frances Moore, wife of the Rev. Mr. Brooke, chaplain to... | |
 | 1866 - 432 pages
...Norway, too, has noble, wild prospects, and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious, noble, wild prospecta ; but, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which...sees, is the high road that leads him to England." BOOKS RECEIVED. JACKSON. A Military Biography, with Portrait and Maps. By John Esten Cookc, formerly... | |
 | 1874 - 968 pages
...experienced." It was there the " Tour to the Hebrides " was planned. It was there Dr. Johnaon said, " Let me tell you the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road which leads him to England." At the " Rainbow Tavern " the wits went to drink coffee. It was the second... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...too, has ' noble wild prospects ;' and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious ' noble 'did JT'aspects!' But, sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high-road that lead* him to England!" This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.... | |
 | Theophilus Charles Noble - 1870 - 152 pages
...the most severe " table talk " ever indulged in against them. "But, Sir," said he to Mr. Ogilvie. " let me tell you the noblest prospect which a Scotchman...sees is the high road that leads him to England!" At the "Mitre," 1728-53, met the Society of Antiquaries, after making ineffectual attempts to purchase... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...Norway, too, has noble wild prospects r and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which...rude grandeur of nature cannot deny it to Caledonia. 122 THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON. such weather occasioned, ' adding, however, that that they would allow... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...noble wild prospects. But, sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotehman ever sces, ~e " > F n r " ! u U z t " HH6 $ EY d !8 ^K ;ď...2Dv i n &ɰ :$ i D d F t ' 3 $ 1 Ym%2 !s .Qm4۰蕮 H levce, but have not preserved any part of his conversation. On the 14th we had another evening by ourselves... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 806 pages
..."prodigious noble wild prospects. "But, sir, let me tell you, the "noblest prospectwhichaScotch"man ever sees is the high road "that leads him to England."* This unexpected and pointed sally produced what Boswell calls "a roar" of applause; and even at all this distance of time one seems to hear the... | |
 | Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain), Royal Empire Society (Great Britain) - 1873 - 242 pages
...and 1815, by three bodies of Highland emigrants. As we all remember, Dr. Johnson once remarked that " the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England." While appreciating the humour, and, to a certain extent, admitting the truth, of the British lexicographer's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which...but have not preserved any part of his conversation. On the I4th we had another evening by ourselves at the Mitre. It happening to be a very rainy night,... | |
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I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him... 
