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... Byron , DON JUan , i , 7 . If before repast it shall please you to gratify the table with a grace . LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST , iv , 2 . Balm of hurt minds , great nature's second course , Chief nourisher in life's feast . Now good digestion ...
... Byron , DON JUan , i , 7 . If before repast it shall please you to gratify the table with a grace . LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST , iv , 2 . Balm of hurt minds , great nature's second course , Chief nourisher in life's feast . Now good digestion ...
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... Byron , Don Juan , i , 1 . For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood . AS YOU LIKE IT , ii , 3 . And drink , of Adam's ale . Prior , WANDERING PIlgrims . Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine , Yet ...
... Byron , Don Juan , i , 1 . For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood . AS YOU LIKE IT , ii , 3 . And drink , of Adam's ale . Prior , WANDERING PIlgrims . Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine , Yet ...
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... Byron , DON JUAN , v . Since Eve ate apples much depends on dinner . Byron , DON JUAN , xiii . As much valor is to be found in feasting as in fighting . Burton , ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY , i . It is a condition which confronts us - not a ...
... Byron , DON JUAN , v . Since Eve ate apples much depends on dinner . Byron , DON JUAN , xiii . As much valor is to be found in feasting as in fighting . Burton , ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY , i . It is a condition which confronts us - not a ...
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... Byron , THE CORSAIR , ii . Celery . We have some salt of our youth in us . Salted Almonds . MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR , ii , 3 . The salt in them is hot . KING JOHN , V , 7 . A thirsty evil . MEASURE FOR MEASURE , i , 2 . Some relish of ...
... Byron , THE CORSAIR , ii . Celery . We have some salt of our youth in us . Salted Almonds . MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR , ii , 3 . The salt in them is hot . KING JOHN , V , 7 . A thirsty evil . MEASURE FOR MEASURE , i , 2 . Some relish of ...
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... Byron , DON JUAN , v . When I have tasted of this sacred dish , Then shall my bones rest in my father's tomb In peace . Beaumont and Fletcher , Woman Hater , i , 3 . The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms . Richard Bentley ...
... Byron , DON JUAN , v . When I have tasted of this sacred dish , Then shall my bones rest in my father's tomb In peace . Beaumont and Fletcher , Woman Hater , i , 3 . The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms . Richard Bentley ...
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ALCHEMIST ANTONY AND Cleopatra Beaumont and Fletcher BIGLOW PAPERS blessed Byron CÆSAR Cartwright COMEDY OF ERRORS Congreve CORIOLANUS Cowley Cowper CYMBELINE Dekker and Ford DIARY Dinner Menus dish DON JUAN doth drink Dryden DUNCIAD EPILOGUE FABLE FOR CRITICS feast friends gentle GENTLEMEN OF VERONA give HAMLET hath HENRY VI HENRY VIII honour Horace hour Jonson JULIUS CAESAR KING JOHN ladies LEAR Lord LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST Lowell MACBETH MEASURE FOR MEASURE Men's Dinner MERCHANT OF VENICE MERRY WIVES MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Milton MORAL ESSAYS O. W. Holmes OTHELLO PARADISE LOST Pepys PERICLES POLITE CONVERSATIONS Pope praise pray PROLOGUE PSALMS Randolph RICHARD ROMEO AND JULIET SATIRES Shackerley Marmion Shakspere Sheridan SHREW soul sweet Swift TAMING taste TEMPEST Tennyson thee There's thing thou TIMON OF ATHENS TITUS ANDRONICUS tobacco TROILUS AND CRESSIDA TWELFTH NIGHT unto wine WINTER'S TALE WIVES OF WINDSOR WOMAN HATER
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Page 18 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 186 - This day is holy unto the LORD your God ; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared : for this day is holy unto our Lord : neither be ye sorry ; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
Page 184 - Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness : fear before him, all the earth.
Page 158 - I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries...
Page 14 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of link-ed sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus...
Page 154 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 185 - When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me : for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Page 141 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Page 165 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 162 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.