A table richly spread, in regal mode, With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort And savour, beasts of chase, or fowl of game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boiled, Gris-amber-steamed ; all fish from sea or shore, Freshet, or purling brook,... Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged - Page 371827Full view - About this book
| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 240 pages
...literature had not travelled beyond the " hobnailed pastorals" which professed to describe that life. * ''All fish from sea or shore, Freshet or purling brook, of shell or fin :" Todd misunderstands the word, explaining it " a stream of fresh water." Not so ; but as the whole... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 278 pages
...have yet on our side receded from their original use, while they have not receded from it on the * " All fish from sea or shore, Freshet or purling brook, of shell or fin :" Todd misunderstands the word, explaining it " a stream of fresh water." Not so ; but as the whole... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 238 pages
...literature had not travelled beyond the " hobnailed pastorals" which professed to describe that life. * "All fish from sea or shore, Freshet or purling brook, of shell or fin:" Todd misunderstands the word, explaining it " a stream of fresh water." Not so; but as \)ie whole passage... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 240 pages
...literature had not travelled beyond the " hobnailed pastorals" which professed to describe that life. * "All fish from sea or shore, Freshet or purling brook, of shell or fin :" Todd misunderstands the word, explaining it " a stream of fresh water." Not so; but as the whole... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 240 pages
...literature had not travelled beyond the " hobnailed pastorals'' which professed to describe that life. * "All fish from sea or shore, Freshet or purling brook, of shell or fln :" Todd misunderstands the word, explaining it "a stream of fresh water." Not so ; but as the whole... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 pages
...Paradise Regained, provides for i temptation in the wilderness : — " A table richly spread in regal mode, With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort And savour; beasts of chace, or fowl of game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boiled, Gris amber steamed ; all fish... | |
| 1856 - 540 pages
...language in so doing. Milton furnishes us with a few old forms which are now merely local: — (1.) " All fish from sea or shore, Freshet or purling brook, of shell or fin." Mr. Trench has noticed the word ' freshet ' as having " never been out of use in America." ' Freshet,'... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...Paradise Regained, provides for i temptation in the wilderness : — " A table richly spread in regal mode, With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort And savour; beasts of chace, or fowl of game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boiled, Gris-arnber steamed ; all fish... | |
| John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...lifting up his eyes, beheld In ample space, under the broadest shade, A table richly spread,1 in regal mode, With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort...game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boiled, Gris-amber-steamed ;3 all fish from sea or shore, Freshet, or purling brook, of shell or fin, And exquisitest... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 564 pages
...With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort And savour; beasts of chace, or fowl of game, In pasiry built, or from the spit, or boiled, Gris-am'ber steamed...fish from sea or shore, Freshet or purling brook, for which was drained Pontus, and Lucrine bay, and Afric coast." The tempter, I warrant you, thought... | |
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