 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...  Johnsoniana.. - Strona 80autor: James Boswell - 1820 - Liczba stron: 178Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1889 - Liczba stron: 102
...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 - Liczba stron: 296
...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 - Liczba stron: 558
...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 - Liczba stron: 480
...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.... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - Liczba stron: 514
...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... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - Liczba stron: 304
...Beattie. 1776. 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... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - Liczba stron: 640
...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 England." Here, strangely enough, if Johnson had remembered the saying, the tour to the Hebrides was first started... | |
 | JAMES BOSWELL - 1892
...Harris, a coxcomb, 329; Sir! you know no more of our church than a Hottentot! 332 ; The noblest prospect a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to London, 336 ; Edinburgh Castle would make a good priian in England, INDSX. 336 ; " if you cannot talk... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - Liczba stron: 358
...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... | |
 | 1888 - Liczba stron: 438
...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 England ! " This glorious point of course brought a roar of applause. Prospects and gardens our hero laughed... | |
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