 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 páginas
...prospects. JOHNSON. " I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild...me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England ! " ' Boswell's Life efjohnsm, \.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 páginas
...prospects. JOHNSON. " I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild...But Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which 256 a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England ! " ' Bosweii-s Life of j<,/uum,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 páginas
...prospects. JOHNSON. " I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild...Caledonia. On Saturday, July 9, I found Johnson surrounded with a numerous levee, but have not preserved any part of his conversation. On the 14th we had another... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 páginas
...prospects. JOHNSON. " I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild...Caledonia. On Saturday, July 9, I found Johnson surrounded with a numerous levee, but have not preserved any part of his conversation. On the 14th we had another... | |
 | 1889 - 102 páginas
...and parcel of her very atmosphere. Remember, my countrymen, it was an English growler who said that " The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England." Though said in earnest and in irony this was never true, and, from both the facts and circumstances... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1889 - 296 páginas
...the scenery of the Highlands as dismal and hideous. Johnson, we know, laid it down as an axiom that " the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England "—a saying which throws much doubt on his distinction that the Giant's Causeway was "worth seeing... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 558 páginas
...desired to attend to the noble prospect from the Castlehill, he replied, " Sir. the noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to London." This lively sarcasm was thrown out at a tavern in London, in my presence, many years before.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 480 páginas
...desired to attend to the noble prospect from the Castlehill, he replied, " Sir. the noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to London." This lively sarcasm was thrown out at a tavern in London, in my presence, many years before.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 páginas
...prospects. JOHNSON : * believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; < P < I9 high-road that leads him to England !" This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - 514 páginas
...the scenery of the Highlands as dismal and hideous. Johnson, we know, laid it down as an axiom that " the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England" — a saying which throws much doubt on his distinction that the Giant's Causeway was "worth seeing... | |
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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... 
