 | Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 pages
...something between a childish treble and a grumble — the mild forerunner, or prcdudium of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors...a sacrifice of the exterior tegument ! There is no flavor comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well- watched, not over- roasted, crackling,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1858 - 412 pages
...roast pig. " There is no flavour comparable, I will contend" (said my dear old friend, Charles Lamb), " to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted crackling, as it is well called."—(Dissertation on Roast Pig, Works, i. 282). Crackers are small fireworks, which explode... | |
 | 1859 - 778 pages
...paragraph, hoping that its flavor will induce an appetite for a further indulgence. "There is no flavor comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp,...brittle resistance — with the adhesive oleaginous — O ! call it not fat — but an indefinable sweetness growing up to it — the tender blossoming... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 882 pages
...between a childish treble and a grumble — the mild forerunner, or proeludium, of a grunt. " Hi- mutt be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate...— but what a sacrifice of the exterior tegument 1 " There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, wellwatched, not over-roasted... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 338 pages
...humour of Charles Lamb's "Dissertation upon Roast Pig," and[ the passage upon the leech or bark : — There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to...wellwatched, not over-roasted crackling, as it is called — the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 348 pages
...humour of Charles Lamb's "Dissertation upon Roast Pig," and the passage upon the leech or bark : — There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, wellwatched^inot over-roasted crackling, as it is called — the very teeth are invited to their shffe... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...something between a childish treble, and a grumble — the mild forerunner, or prcdudium, of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors...brittle resistance — with the adhesive oleaginous — O call it not fat — but an indefinable sweetness growing up to it — the tender blossoming of... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 pages
...something between a childish treble and a grumble — the mild forerunner or prceludium of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors...brittle resistance — with the adhesive oleaginous — 0 call it not fat ! but an indefinable sweetness growing up to it — the tender blossoming of... | |
 | Moxon Edward and co - 208 pages
...mild forerunner or prteludium of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestprs ate them seethed, or boiled — but what a sacrifice...brittle resistance — with the adhesive oleaginous — O call it not fat ; but an indefinable sweetness growing up to it — the tender blossoming of... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...something between a childish treble ami a grumble—the mild forerunner or praludium of a grunt. He mutt be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate...comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, wellwatchrd, not over-roasted, cradling, as it is well called—the very teeth are invited to their... | |
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He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed or boiled, but what a sacrifice of the exterior tegument ! There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted crackling... 
