 Much victuals serves for gluttony, to fatten men like swine, ' But he's a frugal man indeed that with a leaf can dine, ' And needs no napkins for his hands his finger's ends to wipe, ' But keeps his kitchen in a box, and roast meat in a pipe.  Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's - Strana 327podľa John Pendleton Kennedy - 1860 - Počet stránok 432Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | George Wentworth - 1824 - Počet stránok 378
...man indeed That on a leaf can dine. He needs no napkin for his hands, His fingers' ends to wipe, Then keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat in a pipe. THE GAME OF CHANCE. Imitated from the French. One night a youth and maiden met, Who chanc'd to sit... | |
 | 1824 - Počet stránok 486
...man indeed That on a leaf can dine. He needs no napkin for his hands, His fingers' ends to wipe, Then keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat in a pipe. FRENCH CARD. The following Is a literal copy of a French card of address: — " The Professor Guirand... | |
 | William Henry Pyne - 1825 - Počet stránok 762
...is a frugal man indeed That on a leaf can dine. He needs no napkin for bis hands, His fingers ends to wipe ; That keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat in a pipe." Whether in compliment to the king, or in honest abhorrence of this extravagant custom, it were perhaps... | |
 | William Pulleyn - 1829 - Počet stránok 302
...dainty meats I do defy, Which feed men fat as swine ; He is a frugal man indeed Who on a leaf can dine. He needs no napkin for his hands, ' His finger-ends to wipe, That keeps his kitchen in a box, And roasts meat in a pipe. But Peter Haustio, who wrote AD 1651, styles tobacco — A deadly weed, which... | |
 | 1840 - Počet stránok 684
...He is a frugal man indeed. That on a leaf can dine. He needs no napkin for his hand. His finger ends to wipe, That keeps his kitchen in a box. And roast meat in a pipe." Sanatory Effects of Tobacco. — Our forefathers set a great value on them, and with reason. For, "... | |
 | Brand - 1849 - Počet stránok 544
...is a frugal man indeed That on a leaf can dine. He needs no napkin for his hands His fingers' ends to wipe, That keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat in a pipe." In the Hymnus Tabaci by Raphael Thorius, made English by Peter Hausted, Master of Arts, Camb. 1651,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1849 - Počet stránok 164
...frugal man indeed That on a teaf can dine. He needs no napkin for his hands, His fingers' ends to wife, That keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat in a pipe." We jannot say much for the morality or good sense of this ditty, though we must allow it would be a... | |
 | James Parton - 1856 - Počet stránok 720
...is a frugal man indeed That on a leaf can dine ! He needs no napkin for his hands, His finger's ends to wipe, That keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat in his pipe ! AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING. " Harry, I can not think," says Dick, " What makes my ankles... | |
 | 1860 - Počet stránok 800
...a frugal man, indeed, That on a leaf can dine. " He needs no nnpkin for his hands His fingers' ends to wipe, That keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat iu a pipe." And so on, the singers of succeeding years, usque ad nauseam, — a loathing equalled only... | |
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