Salad for the SolitaryR. Bentley, 1853 - 284 pages |
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... seems that this worthy had conceived a remarkable fondness for certain delicacies prepared by a pastry cook in Gray Inn Lane , and particularly for his mutton pies , and finally induced him to remove his shop to the Fountain Tavern in ...
... seems that this worthy had conceived a remarkable fondness for certain delicacies prepared by a pastry cook in Gray Inn Lane , and particularly for his mutton pies , and finally induced him to remove his shop to the Fountain Tavern in ...
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... seem to follow that he acquires in consequence any more sheepish expression , than that he who indulges his prefer- ence for bacon should evince a hoggish disposition . It is odd enough that a sheep when dead should turn to mutton , all ...
... seem to follow that he acquires in consequence any more sheepish expression , than that he who indulges his prefer- ence for bacon should evince a hoggish disposition . It is odd enough that a sheep when dead should turn to mutton , all ...
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... seems to be very general : the custom , doubtless , took its rise from necessity , which too often rendered it imperative . Many curious modes are in vogue , with barbarous nations , touching their method of entertaining guests . The ...
... seems to be very general : the custom , doubtless , took its rise from necessity , which too often rendered it imperative . Many curious modes are in vogue , with barbarous nations , touching their method of entertaining guests . The ...
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... seems but one remove from absolute cannibalism , since , when this animal is divested of his skin , it precisely resembles a human being . There are some of the tribes of our Indians who are fond of rattle- snakes , which they boil or ...
... seems but one remove from absolute cannibalism , since , when this animal is divested of his skin , it precisely resembles a human being . There are some of the tribes of our Indians who are fond of rattle- snakes , which they boil or ...
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... seems to have literally feasted on fancy . Few could live more frugally ; in one of his poems , he says of himself , " that he was a fit person to have lived in the world when acorns were the food of men . " Shelley , who had an ...
... seems to have literally feasted on fancy . Few could live more frugally ; in one of his poems , he says of himself , " that he was a fit person to have lived in the world when acorns were the food of men . " Shelley , who had an ...
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Page 227 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 172 - E'en while with us thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow. Dust to its narrow house beneath ! Soul to its place on high ! They that have seen thy look in death, No more may fear to die.
Page 181 - For him, the Spring Distils her dews, and from the silken gem Its lucid leaves unfolds; for him, the hand Of Autumn tinges every fertile branch With blooming gold and blushes like the morn.
Page 229 - Mantua me genuit : Calabri rapuere : tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces.
Page 331 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of /company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Page 175 - And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.
Page 304 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 145 - Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money : that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
Page 85 - Books are a guide in youth and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from becoming a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
Page 306 - With NATURE, HOPE, and POESY, When I was young ! When I was young? — Ah, woful WHEN ! Ah for the Change 'twixt Now and Then ! This breathing House not built with hands, This body that does me grievous wrong, O'er aery Cliffs and glittering Sands, How lightly then it flashed along...