 ... tell your ladyship that the reverend Matron, the Olla podrida, hath intellectuals and senses : Mutton, Beef, and Bacon are to her as the Will, Understanding, and Memory are to the Soul ; Cabbage, Turnips...  The Book of Table-talk - Page 123by Charles MacFarlane - 1836Full view - About this book
 | James Howell - England - 1688 - 554 pages
...fome Birds to make her light, by all means fhe mufl go adorn'd with Chains of Saufages : He is alfo good at Larding of Meat after the Mode of France. Madam, you may make proof of him, and if your Ladifhip find him too faucy or wailful, you may return him from whence you had him. So I reft, Madam,... | |
 | James Howell - Culture - 1726 - 534 pages
...fome Birds to make her light ; by all means me muft go adorn'd with chains of Saufages. He is alfo good at larding of Meat after the Mode of France. Madam, you may make proof of him, and if your Ladyfhip find him too faucy or waflful you rnay return him whence you had him. So I reft, Madam, ijun-... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English letters - 1790 - 912 pages
...make her light : by all mçans me muft go adorned with chains of faufages. He is alfo good at hrding of meat after the mode of France. Madam, you may make proof of him, and if your Ladymip find him too faucy or wafteful, you may return him whence you had him. So I reft, Madam, your... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 630 pages
...turnips, artichokes, potatoes, and dates, are to her five senses, and pepper the common sense ; she must have marrow to keep life in her, and some birds...means she must go adorned with chains of sausages." THE MUSE'S LOOKING-GLASS. Yonr'e welcome ; if you cannot, do hut tell Ynur meaning by some sign, and... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 630 pages
...artichokes, potatoes, and dates, arc to her five senses, and pepper the common sense ; she must bave marrow to keep life in her, and some birds to make...means she must go adorned with chains of sausages." Your'e welcome ; if you cannot, do but tell Your meaning by some sign, and — all farewell. If you... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 630 pages
...turnips, artichokes, potatoes, and dates, are to her five senses, and pepper the common sense ; she must have marrow to keep life in her, and some birds...her light ; by all means she must go adorned with of sausages." THE MUSE'S LOOKING-GLASS. [RiNDOLfH. Your'e «drome ; if you cannot, do but tell Your... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - England - 1845 - 472 pages
...toes, and dates, are her five senses, and pepper the common sense ; she must have marrow to keep the life in her, and some birds to make her light ; by...good at larding of meat, after the mode of France."* At the dinner-hour the servants were marshalled and the dishes were served by orders issued aloud from... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 492 pages
...Cabbage, Turnips, Artichokes, Potatoes, and Dates, are her five Senses, and Pepper the Common Sense ; she must have Marrow to keep Life in her, and some Birds...wasteful, you may return him whence you had him." HowelPs Letters, let. xxxvi. In this humorous letter the author speaks of chains of sausages. An old... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 346 pages
...cabbage, turneps, artichokes, potatoes, and dates, are her five senses, and pepper the common sense ; she must have marrow to keep life in her, and some birds...means she must go adorned with chains of sausages : she is also good at larding after the mode of France/* Being everything by turns, Howell's next task... | |
 | English literature - 1863 - 556 pages
...Jesse. she must have marrow to kcep the life in her, and some birds to make her light; hy all menus she must go adorned with chains of sausages. He is...good at larding of meat, after the mode of France." That sparkling wit and amusing memoir-writer, De Grammont, looked with great contempt upon the state... | |
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