 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...  The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 403by James Boswell - 1807 - 460 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 556 pages
...memory. The morning was chiefly taken up by Dr. Johnson's giving him an account of our Tour. The subject of difference in political principles was introduced....at a tavern in London, in my presence, many years before.1 We had with us to-day at dinner, at my house, the Lady Dowager Colvill, and Lady Anne Erskine,... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pages
...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." Though Boswell makes a slight remonstrance about the " rude grandeur of Nature " as seen... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...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 unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause. After all, however, those,... | |
 | John Spencer Clark, Mary Dana Hicks, Walter Scott Perry - 1900 - 350 pages
...regarded the scenery of the Highlands as dismal and hideous: Johnson said, 'The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England,' and of the Giant's Causeway, ' Worth seeing, but not worth going to see.' Madame de Stae'l... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 pages
...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." Though Boswell makes a slight remonstrance about the " rude grandeur of Nature " as seen... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1903 - 456 pages
...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.' LXXXII. Woman's Love. Queen Elizabeth loved the Earl of Essex so dearly, that in a tender... | |
 | 1904 - 716 pages
...EVERYBODY is familiar with the sarL, castic observation of Dr. Johnson, that the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England. But in judging of Johnson's peculiar venom against north countrymen, we must always remember... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which his edition. On Monday, September 15, Dr. Johnson observe England ! ' This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause. After all, however, those,... | |
 | Edward Manson - 1904 - 538 pages
...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"—a sally, says Boswell, greeted with great laughter. Of all those—and they are many—who... | |
 | 1904 - 766 pages
...praised the noble wild prospects of Scotland, Dr. Johnson remarked that the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England. In 1772 some of the city friends of Wilkes sent in a remonstrance praying the. king among... | |
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