...the tables of his hosts. It was after a Hebridean dejeuner that he penned the immortal sentence — " If an epicure could remove by a wish, in quest of...wherever he had supped he would breakfast in Scotland." He found, too, the crockery for common use to be of " Queen's ware," and silver used on all occasions...

...in Waughope Wood till he made his escape to Holland." (o) p. 96. Dr. Johnson on Scotch breakfasts: " If an epicure could remove by a wish in quest of sensual gratification, wherever he had supped, he would breakfast in Scotland " (Johnson's Works, ix. 52)....

...expected the breakfast, a meal in which the Scots, whether of the Lowlands or mountains, must be confessed to excel us. The tea and coffee are accompanied not...Scotland. In the islands, however, they do what I found is not very easy to endure. They pollute the teatable by plates piled with large slices of Cheshire...

...and Boswell triumphantly records that his hero allowed the peculiar merit of breakfast in Scotland. " If an epicure could remove by a wish in quest of sensual gratification, wherever he had supped he would breakfast in Scotland." As the night is falling and...

...morning, swallows a glass of whisky' was one of his dicta. Another observation of the old man was that, 'if an epicure could remove by a wish, in quest of...wherever he had supped he would breakfast in Scotland '. I always feel pleasure in the confession : ' I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might...

...changing, they were obliged to tack, and finally run for Col. To Johnson's eulogium already mentioned, "if an epicure could remove by a wish, in quest of...wherever he had supped, he would breakfast in Scotland," we may adduce a parallel from a quarter at least equally impartial. Peacock, who hated the Scots as...

...jumble of " facts " for so learned a man! Of his dietary during his journey he records the following : " The tea and coffee are accompanied not only with butter, but with conserves, marmalade, and honey." Till reading this I was under the impression that bees, or their...

...go to bed immediately after. [Samuel] JOHNSON, who was not partial to the Scotch, used to say, that if an epicure could remove by a wish in quest of sensual gratifications, he would breakfast in Scotland.- If breakfast was that gentleman's favourite meal, he did well not...

...more suited to modern taste Samuel Johnson wrote that breakfast was a meal in which the Scots excel: 'The tea and coffee are accompanied not only with butter, but with honey, conserves, and marmalades' (A Journey to the Western Islands of Scodand, ed. Mary Last-flics (1971), 56). 82.8 condescend on enter...

...breakfast, a meal in which the Scots, whether of the lowlands or mountains, must be compelled to excell us. The tea and coffee are accompanied not only with...wherever he had supped he would breakfast in Scotland (Johnson, 1775,1968:123) Both in exuberance and in disappointment Johnson is difficult to surpass,...