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" ... that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt, as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it. Then first began the rude form of a gridiron. Roasting by the string or spit came in a... "
The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch ... - Page 141
by Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 476 pages
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Familiar Talks on English Literature: A Manual Embracing the Great Epochs of ...

Abby Sage Richardson - English literature - 1884 - 498 pages
...— roasting by the string or spit came in a century or two later — I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the...the most obvious arts make their way among mankind." A life-long friend of Lamb and an early admirer of ColeBorn 1778. ridge was William Hazlitt, also a...
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The new explanatory readers. Standard 1-3, 5,6. [With] Home lesson book, Issue 2

Moffatt and Paige - 1885 - 240 pages
...gridiron. Roasting by the string or spit came in a century or two later, I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the...arts make their way among mankind Without placing too 10 implicit faith in the account above given, it must be agreed that if a worthy pretext for so dangerous...
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Essays of Elia: And Other Pieces

Charles Lamb - 1885 - 296 pages
...gridiron. Roasting by the string, or spit, came in a century or two later, I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the...the most obvious arts, make their way among mankind. • Of all (he delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis, I will mamtain it to be the most delicate —...
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The Improved illustrated reader, Book 5

Improved illustrated reader - 1885 - 266 pages
...gridiron. Roasting by the string, or spit, came in a century or two later — I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the...the most obvious arts, make their way among mankind. 13. Without placing too implicit faith on the account thus given, it must be agreed, that if a worthy...
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Chambers's advanced reader [forming a 7th part to Chambers's graduated readers].

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 328 pages
...gridiron. Roasting by the string or spit came in a century or two later, I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the...the most obvious arts, make their way among mankind. A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG. on fire (especially in these days) could be assigned in favour of any...
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The Grounds of an Homoeopath's Faith

Samuel Arthur Jones - Homeopathy - 1885 - 106 pages
...gridiron. Roasting by the string or spit came in a century or two later, I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the...the most obvious arts, make their way among mankind. A Dissertation upon Roast-Pig. LECTURE III. The Minimum Dose an Inevitable Sequence. TO-NIGHT, I must...
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Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...Roasting by the string or spit came in 125 a century or two later — I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the...the most obvious, arts make their way among mankind. 8. Without placing too implicit faith in the account above 130 given, it must be agreed that if a worthy...
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The American Library of Art, Literature and Song, Volume 2

Literature - 1886 - 552 pages
...gridiron. Roasting by the string or spit came in a century or two later — I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the...and seemingly the most obvious, arts make their way amongst mankind. CHAULES LAMB. MY CASTLE IN SPAIN. THE garret I live in is lonely ; I keep up no sumptuous...
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A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig

Charles Lamb - Dissertations, Academic - 1888 - 64 pages
...gridiron. Roasting by the string, or spit, came in a century or two later, I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the...too implicit faith in the account above given, it niust be agreed, that if a worthy pretext for so dangerous an experiment -as -setting houses on,fire...
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The Everyday Book ; Or, a Guide to the Year: Describing the Popular ...

William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1888 - 876 pages
...giidiroc. Roasting by the siring, or spit, came in a century or two later, I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the...most obvious arts, make their way among mankind." EUA maintains, that of all the delicacies in the whole eatable world, " roast pig" is the most delicate....
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