 | Thomas Burke - 1927 - 436 pages
...ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most...conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight. Sir John Hawkins (of Dr. Johnson). That nice little smoky room at the " Salutation" which is even now... | |
 | Thomas Burke - 1927 - 434 pages
...ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most...contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments 1 find delight. Sir John Hawkins (of Dr. Johnson). That nice little smoky room at the " Salutation"... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pages
...ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most...in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find defight." a We happened to lie this night at the inn at Henley, where Shenstone wrote these lines.*... | |
 | Madelon Powers - 1998 - 356 pages
...century. In his words, "[W]ine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most...dogmatise and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinions and sentiments I find delight."2 This English tavern tradition of lively conversation and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 pages
...ready to supply my wants: wine uwre exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most...dogmatise and am contradicted, and in this conflict ot opinions and sentiments I find delight." ' 1 We happened to lie this night at the inn at Henley,... | |
 | 1901 - 592 pages
...prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love ; I dogmatize and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight." This is no faint praise, but similar encomiums could be furnished from his contemporaries without even... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden, Lionel Trilling - 2001 - 328 pages
...ready to supply my wants: wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most...dogmatise and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinions and sentiments I find delight. Mr. Clifford does not go in for detailed criticism of Johnson... | |
 | 1879 - 948 pages
...ready to supply my wants : wine then exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most...contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I delight." Alas for the instability of all human institutions, the old taverns have passed away with... | |
 | Century Association (New York, N.Y.). - 1892 - 130 pages
...ready to supply my wants. Wine here exhilarates my spirits and prompts me to free conversation, and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most...contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiment I find delight." to disturb its Arcadian serenity, for contrary to its usual custom of late... | |
 | 1880 - 782 pages
...prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love ; I dogmatize and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I delight." Alas for the instability of all human institutions ! the old taverns have passed away with... | |
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... tavern, I experience an oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude: when I am seated, I find the master courteous, and the servants obsequious to my call; anxious to know and ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts... 
