 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 pages
...safe; for he observed that Scotland had a great many noble wild prospects. JOHNSON. " I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has 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,... | |
 | 1888 - 496 pages
...Scotland had " many noble wild prospects." " I believe, sir, you have a great many," said Johnson. "Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland...sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England ! " which produced most roots and fruits,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 pages
...; for he observed, that Scotland had a great many noble wild prospects. JOHNSON. " I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild...Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England ! " This unexpected and pointed sally... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 pages
...; for he observed, that Scotland had a great many noble wild prospects. JOHNSON. " I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild...Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England ! " This unexpected and pointed sally... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...safe ; for he observed, that Scotland had 4 great many noble wild prospects. JOHNSON : * believe, Sir, Scotchman ever sees, is the high-road that leads him to England !" This unexpected and pointed sally... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 640 pages
...Ogilvie, in reply to his observation that Scotland had a great many noble prospects : " I believe, sir, you have a great many ; Norway, too, has noble wild...sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England." Here, strangely enough, if Johnson... | |
 | 1928 - 710 pages
...afforded a great many noble wild prospects, Johnson replied : "Depend upon it, Sir, the noblest prospect a Scotsman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England." The London into which Wm. Hunter came was the London of Johnson and Goldsmith, of Gay, Garrick... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1894 - 398 pages
...Scotchman's praise of the " noble, wild prospects " to be found in Scotland : — " I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble, wild...Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high-road that leads him to England." But this curious power of Johnson's... | |
 | Alexander Nicolas De Menil - 1897 - 572 pages
...have a great many. t "Letters of Anns Seward written between the years 1784 and 1807." G vols. p. 8vo. Norway, too, has noble, wild prospects, and Lapland...sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England." This curious power of Johnson's of... | |
 | 1888 - 438 pages
..." many noble wild prospects." " I believe, sir, you have a great many," said Johnson. "Norway, loo, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland is remarkable...sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England ! " This glorious point of course brought... | |
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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 to... 
