Tommy Riley (J.P. Davis) is a poor but noble prospect, who has yet to regain his footing after missteps in the Olympic trials.
Most pedestrians walk right past what could be one of its noblest prospects, in a city where the lack of urban vistas is generally lamented.
When Boswell boasted about his country's landscape, saying it had many noble prospects, Johnson replied: "The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!"
"The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads to England."
Then we washed out one-fourth of it, and got a noble prospect.
In Refinement of the Arts David Hume tells of the monk "who, because the windows of his cell opened upon a noble prospect, made a covenant with his eyes never to turn that way."
"Sir," said Dr. Johnson to the Scotsman Boswell, "the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England."
Of course, Scots have been drawn to London ever since the Union and since Dr Johnson proclaimed that the noblest prospect a Scotchman ever saw was the high road that led to England.
"That is a noble prospect."
Splendid prospects, noble don, don't you agree?