...denote. Norway, too has wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for noble wild prospects. But Sii', let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman...sees, is the high road that leads him to England. Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does...

...his Scottish biographer James Boswell, produced the most enduring maxim: 'The noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England". Shotgun marriage It is a road that many have taken: an estimated 20 million people of Scots descent,...

...known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. — VIRGINIA WOOLF The noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England. —SAMUEL JOHNSON Wit There are over thirty words in the Irish language that are equivalent to the...

...he could discuss in London and with men who, like Smith, had anticipated his advice by coming south: The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England.14'' Johnson was impatient to meet people he was unlikely to come across, to find common AGE...

...unacknowledged, alien: perhaps from just too far north for a man who had famously remarked: 'The noblest prospect a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England.' Discerning North and South between 1750 and 1830 is much like reading The Dictionary. It is a challenging...

...now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee! n Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore Song No. 9 - Act 1 Boats Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland...sees, is the high road that leads him to England. Boats Members [of civil service orders] rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God')...

...that Samuel Johnson, in the midst of some friendly banter about travel in the British Isles, remarked, "The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England." And that James McNeill Whistler, when Oscar Wilde exclaimed "I wish I'd said that," in appreciation...

...because they are generally more hardy and less mutinous.' - Lord Harrington, Secretary-at-War, 1751 'Norway too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland...sees, is the high road that leads him to England.' - Samuel Johnson, 1763 'Into our places, states and beds they creep;/They've sense to get what we want...