 Men may talk of country Christmasses, Their thirty pound butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues : Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris ; the carcases of three fat wethers bruised for gravy, to make sauce for a single peacock...  Bentley's Miscellany - Σελίδα 137επεξεργασία από - 1841Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Philip Massinger - 1813 - 616 σελίδες
...court-gluttony, Their thirty-pound butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues, Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the carcases Of three fat wethers...their feasts Were fasts, compared with the city's. Trade. What dear dainty Was it, thou murmur'st at? Hold. Did you not observe it ? There were three... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 σελίδες
...butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues ; Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris; the carcates of three fat wethers bruised for gravy to make sauce for a single peacock.' ties assigned them, however eccentric. They had an old fashioned look; having, for the most part, been... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 σελίδες
...Christmasses, Their thirty pound butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues : Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris ; the carcases of three fat wethers...bruised for gravy to make sauce for a single peacock ! readers, who may not have that foolish fondness for odd and obsolete things to which I am a little... | |
 | 1822 - 522 σελίδες
...covnlry-christmatfa— Their thirty-pound butter'd eggs, their pie* of carp's tongues, Their pheasant's clrcnch'd with ambergris, the carcases Of three fat wethers...their feasts Were fasts, compared with the city's." It was the custom in the houses of the countrv-gcntleinen to retire after gone. Her former conductor... | |
 | 1825 - 208 σελίδες
...carps' tongues, Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the carcasses Of three fat wethers bruis'd for gravy, to Make sauce for a single peacock; yet their feasts Were fasts, compar'd with the city's. And in " Stevenson's Twelve Months" (1661), under the head December, are... | |
 | 1824 - 486 σελίδες
...carps tongues, Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the carcasses Of three fat wethers bruis'd for gravy, to Make sauce for a single peacock , yet their feasts Were fasts, comparM with the city's. And in " Stevenson's Twel vc Months" (1661), under the head December, are... | |
 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - 1824 - 380 σελίδες
...carps' tongues, their pheasants drenched with Amber grease, the carcasses of their fat Wethers bruis'd for gravy, to make sauce for A single peacock; yet their feasts were fasts Couipar'd with the city's." The poet then describes the city feast as containing ' three sucking pigs... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 σελίδες
...tongues, Their 'pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the carcasses Of three fatwethers bruis'd forgravy, to Make sauce for a single peacock ; yet their feasts Were fasts, compar'd with the city's. his lord, the fifth Earl of Northumber- And in " Stevenson's Twelve Months"... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1830 - 406 σελίδες
...butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues, Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the carcasses Of three fat wethers bruised for gravy to Make sauce...their feasts Were fasts, compared with the city's. Trade. What dear dainty Was it thou murmur'st at ? Hold. Did you not observe it ? There were three... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1830 - 562 σελίδες
...butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues, Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the car-. casses Of three fat wethers bruised for gravy to Make sauce...their feasts Were fasts, compared with the city's. Trade. Whnt dear dainty Was it thou murmur'st at ? Hold. Did you not observe it ? There were three... | |
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