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Illustrations, Critical, Historical, Biographical, and Miscellaneous, of ... - Page 5
by Richard Warner - 1824
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Every Saturday, Volume 8

1869 - 848 pages
...it if he did not let his fancy launch forth into the gorgeous visions of Sir Epicure Mammon : — " My meat shall all come in in Indian shells, Dishes of agate set In gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies • Boiled in the spirit ofSol, and dissolved pearl, Apicius'...
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The Works of the British Dramatists: Carefully Selected from the Original ...

English drama - 1870 - 610 pages
...ostrich tails Apiece, made in a plume to gather wind. We will be brave, Puffe, now we have the med'cine. My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agate set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies. The tongues of carps, dormice, and camels' heels, Boiled...
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Willson's Intermediate Fifth Reader: On the Original Plan of the School and ...

Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1870 - 382 pages
...into, from whence we will come forth, And roll us dry in gossamer and roses; — My meat shall all come in Indian shells, Dishes of agate,' set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies ; The tongues of carp, dormice, and camel's heels Boiled...
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The Sixth Reader of the United States Series: Embracing, in Brief, the ...

Marcius Willson - Indiana - 1872 - 382 pages
...from whence we will come forth, And roll us dry in gossamer and roses ; — My meat shall all come in Indian shells, Dishes of agate, set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies ; The tongues of carp, dormice, and camel's heels Boiled...
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Lectures on the English Poets and the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - English drama (Comedy) - 1876 - 474 pages
...and gravest of divines That I can get for money. We will be brave, Puffe, now we have the medicine. My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agate set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies. The tongues of ctirps, dormice, and camels' heels Boil'd...
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Essays of Elia, and Eliana. With a memoir by Barry Cornwall, Volume 2

Charles Lamb - 1879 - 454 pages
...warrant for future wealth, as a means of realizing the dream of his namesake in the "Alchemist :" — My meat shall all come in in Indian shells — Dishes of agate set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies ; The tongues of carps, dormice, and camels' heels, Boiled...
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Gems of national poetry. Compiled and ed. by mrs. Valentine

Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...the flower, the sanguis agni? Face. Yes, sir. Mam. We will be brave, Puff, now we have the med'cine. My meat shall all come in in Indian shells, Dishes of agate set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies. The tongues of carps, dormice, and camels' heels Boiled...
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Privately Printed Opuscula Issued to Members of the Sette of ..., Issues 8-10

1885 - 330 pages
...gastronomy. He says to his confidant :— We will be brave, Puff, now we have the med'cne. My meat shall come in Indian shells, Dishes of agate, set in gold, and studded With emerald, sapphire, hyacinths, and rubies, The tongues of carp, dormice and camels' heels, Boiled in...
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The Works of Charles Lamb, Volume 3

Charles Lamb - English essays - 1881 - 892 pages
...for future wealth, as a means of realizing the dream of his namesake in tiie " Alchemist : " — " My meat shall all come in in Indian shells, — Dishes of agate set in gold, and studded AVith emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies; The tongues of carps, dormice, ami camels' heclx,...
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The glass of fashion

Lounger in society the pseud - Etiquette - 1881 - 374 pages
...in his anticipations of the illimitable sensuality to be purchased by boundless wealth : — ' Thy meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agate set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies, The tongues of carps, dormice, and camels' heels, Boil'd...
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