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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature - Page 56
1835
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Essays of Elia: And Other Pieces

Charles Lamb - 1885 - 296 pages
...childish treble, and a grumble— the mild forerunner, or fmludium, of a grunt. He must be roasted. \ am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed,...over-roasted, crackling, as it is well called— the very teetli are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming the coy, brittle resistance...
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Home Dissertations: An Offering to the Household for Economical and ...

1885 - 222 pages
...something between a childish treble and a grumble — the mild forerunner, or prtzludium 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,...
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Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pages
...something between a childish treble and a grumble, the mild forerunner, or prtzludium, of a grunt. 10. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors...seethed, or boiled, but what a sacrifice of the exterior 145 tegument ! 1i. There is no flavor comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched,...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...something hetween a childish treble and a grumble — the mild forerunner, or prceludium of a grunt, He she seemed to speak, everybody that cотtend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted, crackling, as it is well callea...
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Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

William Swinton - 1887 - 686 pages
...comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted, erackling, as it is well called : the very teeth are invited...banquet in overcoming the coy, brittle resistance, i5* with the adhesive oleaginous — O, call it not fat ! but an indefinable sweetness growing up to...
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The Everyday Book ; Or, a Guide to the Year: Describing the Popular ...

William Hone - 1888 - 876 pages
...something between a childish treble and a grumble — the mild forerunner, or prœJudhim, of a grunt. " He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors...comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, wellwaiclied, not over-roasted crackling, as it is well called — the veiy teeth are invited to their...
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A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig

Charles Lamb - 1888 - 64 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...exterior tegument! There is no flavour comparable, I will conYE JURY UIVETH ITS VKRDICT. UPON ROAST PIG. tend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not...
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Essays of Elia, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1888 - 320 pages
...a grunt. 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...well-watched, not overroasted, crackling, as it is well called—the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming the...
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A Hand-book of English Literature: Intended for the Use of High Schools, as ...

Francis Henry Underwood - 1888 - 658 pages
...something between a childish treble and a grumble — the mild forerunner, or pr<zludium, of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors...— but what a sacrifice of the exterior tegument lI . . ' i • • . . : - I There is no flavor comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny,...
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English Prose: From Maundevile to Thackeray

Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 pages
...something between a childish treble, and a grumble — the mild forerunner, or pr&ludium, of a grunt. he must be roasted, I am not ignorant that our ancestors...— but what a sacrifice of the exterior tegument 1 There is no flavour comparable, 1 will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted,...
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