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Sivu 31
... fears give them little leisure to perufe fuch parts of learning as lie re- mote , and are fit only for the clofets of the curious . How bleft are you at London , where you have new books of all forts ! whilft we at a greater diftance ...
... fears give them little leisure to perufe fuch parts of learning as lie re- mote , and are fit only for the clofets of the curious . How bleft are you at London , where you have new books of all forts ! whilft we at a greater diftance ...
Sivu 41
... fears : Nor thall Sleep reign in that precedent night Whofe joyful hours lead on the glorious light Sacred to British worth in Blenheim's fight . The bleffings of good fortune feem refus'd Unless sometimes with gen'rous freedom us'd ...
... fears : Nor thall Sleep reign in that precedent night Whofe joyful hours lead on the glorious light Sacred to British worth in Blenheim's fight . The bleffings of good fortune feem refus'd Unless sometimes with gen'rous freedom us'd ...
Sivu 55
... fear of endangering the booksellers ' shops and the ca- thedral . I have abundance more to fay upon these subjects ; but I am afraid my first course is so tedious that you will excuse me both the second course and the deffert , and call ...
... fear of endangering the booksellers ' shops and the ca- thedral . I have abundance more to fay upon these subjects ; but I am afraid my first course is so tedious that you will excuse me both the second course and the deffert , and call ...
Sivu 72
... fear of burning them ; that beets are good for fmiths , because they , working at the fire , are generally cof- tive ; that Petronius has recorded a little old woman who fold the agrefte olus of the Ancients ; which honour I take to be ...
... fear of burning them ; that beets are good for fmiths , because they , working at the fire , are generally cof- tive ; that Petronius has recorded a little old woman who fold the agrefte olus of the Ancients ; which honour I take to be ...
Sivu 77
... fear contributing to that excellence . Though the Em- perours and nobility had parks to fatten them in , yet in the time of Didianus Julianus if any one had sent him one , or a pig , he would make it last him three days ; whereas ...
... fear contributing to that excellence . Though the Em- perours and nobility had parks to fatten them in , yet in the time of Didianus Julianus if any one had sent him one , or a pig , he would make it last him three days ; whereas ...
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Æneid almoſt Apicius Art of Cookery becauſe beſt breaſt Britiſh charms cry'd defign defire diſh eaſe ev'n ev'ry eyes fafe faid fam'd fame fate fatire fauce fays feem fenfe fhall fhew fighs fince fing firft firſt flain fleep foft fome fong foon foul freſh Frumenty ftand ftill fubject fuch fung fure Heav'n himſelf juſt King laft laſt Latian leaſt lefs mafter moft moſt Mufe muft Muſe muſt ne'er numbers nymph o'er occafion Orpheus Ovid paffion paſs perfons pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure poem poets pow'r praiſe prefent profe Pudding raiſe reſt rhyme rife riſe Rufinus ſaid ſay ſeem ſhall ſhe ſhould ſkies ſome ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtay ſtill ſtood ſtream ſuch tell thefe theſe things thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand thro Unleſs uſe verfe verſe Whilft whofe whoſe wife
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Sivu 41 - Fops may have leave to level all they can, ** As Pigmies would be glad to top a man. •* Half-wits are fleas, fo little and fo light, •' We fcarce could know they live but that they bite. " But as the rich, when tir'd with daily feafts, *' For change become their next poor tenant's guefts, •' Drink hearty draughts of ale from plain brown
Sivu 33 - in criticifm that this latter age has produced. I hope it will not be taken ill by the wits that I call my Cooks by the title of Ingenious; for I cannot imagine why Cooks may not be as well read as any other perfons: I am fure their apprentices of late years have had very
Sivu 73 - were a picture drawn With Cynthia's face but With a neck like Brawn, With wings of turkey and with feet of calf, Tho' drawn by Kneller it would make you laugh. Such is, good Sir! the figure of a feaft
Sivu 67 - and hours, fo as not to difturb it. My friend faid there remained but two books more, one of Sea and the other of River Fifli, in the account of which he would not be long, feeing his memory began to fail him almoft as much as my
Sivu 39 - of afparagus upon his firft coming to London, which were not brought into England till many years after ; or make Owen Tudor prefent Queen Catharine with a fugarloaf; whereas he might as eafily have given her a diamond as large, feeing the
Sivu 101 - might lie more compact; that too large a heap of precepts together might appear too burthenfome; and therefore (if fmall matters may allude to greater) as Virgil in his Georgicks, fo here moft of the parts end with fome remarkable fable, which carries with it fome moral: yet if any perfons pleafe to take the
Sivu 41 - from the coals; •' So you, retiring from much better cheer, ** For once may venture to do penance here: " And fince that plenteous autumn now is paft,
Sivu 39 - he has fome knowledge of this Art of Cookery, and the progrefs of it. Would it not found ridiculous to hear Alexander The Great command his cannon to be mounted, and to throw redhot bullets out of his mortarpieces ? or to have Statira talk of
Sivu 1 - That nymph that brew'd and bottled ale fo well. III. How fleet is air! how many things have breath Which in a moment they refign to death, Depriv'd of light and all their happieft ftatc Not by their fault but fome o'erruling Fate!
Sivu 49 - to fuppofe that Vally lying abroad that night, the old gentlewoman under that concern would have any ftomach to it for her own fupper. However, to fee the fate of things! there is nothing permanent: for one Mrs. Candia making (though innocently) a