...painted flowers. His chief antipathies were to cards and dancing. The origin of that well-known verse, Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found, The warmest welcome at an inn, is amusing. Shenstone happened,...

...in reciting verses, particu(1) [The lines in the corrected edition of Shenstone's works run thus : " Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found, The warmest welcome at an inn. "] larly from Pope. Among the...

...amiable Shenstane. Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn. Frank. A savage life was the object of Johnson's unconquerable aversion. Piominnu. Johnson was a lion...

...pencil : — " Who'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may ha»e been, May MLfh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn." It is said that Archbishop Leighton long expressed an earnest hope that he should die at an inn —...

...discomforts was the roadside inn, which, more often than otherwise, was clean, warm, and comfortable. Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found These miserable and dangerous roads, the ruts often by measurement...

...dice, and d'n ; Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot or humble inn. » * • « * * * "Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found . The warmest welcome at an inn !" Tavern life, however, is not...

...the poet Shenstone wrote those oft-quoted lines, which are a sad libel upon English hospitality — Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn. There are other stanzas less known,...

...consented to take a Benefit, &c., &o. &c. ! &o. ! &c. ! LAYS OF A LAZY MINSTREL. A RIVERAIN RHYME. Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round — Where'er his stages may have been — May sigh to think thit he has found Ilia wettest weather at an inn. SHENSTONB. Edited by the Lazy...

...want of it a crime. A niong us, the civilised, " Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Whate'er his stages may have been, Must sigh to think he still has found The readiest welcome at an inn." Yes, hospitality has become among us one of those cheap virtues which...

...Shenstone's lines: " Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an km'." My illustrious friend, I thought, did not sufficiently admire Shenstone. That ingenious and elegant...