...Dr. Steptoe, Mr. Goldsborough, Mr. Johnson, and many others ; a most sinful feast again ! every thing which could delight the eye or allure the taste ;...of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped sillabubs, &c. &c., Parmesan cheese, punch, wine, porter, beer, &c. At evening we climbed up the steeple...

...fools, trifles, floating islands, beer, porter, punch, wine, etc. Again, after dining at Mr. Powell's: "A most sinful feast again ! Everything which could...or allure the taste — curds and creams, jellies, sweatmeats of various sorts, twenty sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped syllabubs,...

...magnificence, and, above all, abundance under many roofs. " A most sinful feast again," John Adams wrote. " Everything which could delight the eye or allure the...sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, and whipped sillabubs." These dainties were washed down by floods of Madeira, more undeniable than...

...sillabubs, floating islands, fools, etc., with a dessert of fruits, raisins, almonds, pears, peaches." " A most sinful feast again ! everything which could...creams, jellies, sweetmeats of various sorts, twenty kinds of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped sillabubs, etc. Parmesan cheese, punch, wine,...

...eatables. His appetite overcame his scruples, although after each feast he scourged himself for yielding. " A most sinful feast again ! everything which could delight the eye or allure the taste." " A mighty feast again ; nothing less than the very best of Claret, Madeira, and Burgundy." " A magnificent...

...different provinces, but at last we got swallowed up in politics. Thursday. — Dined at Mr. Powell's with many others. A most sinful feast again ! Everything...could delight the eye or allure the taste: curds and cream jellies, sweetmeats of various sorts, twenty sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands,...

...different provinces, but at last we got swallowed up in politics. Thursday. — Dined at Mr. Powell's with many others. A most sinful feast again! Everything...could delight the eye or allure the taste: curds and cream jellies, sweetmeats of various sorts, twenty sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands,...

...but at last we got swallowed up in politics. Thursday. — Dined at Mr. Powell's with many oth ers. A most sinful feast again ! Everything which could delight the eye or allure the taste : curds and cream jellies, sweetmeats of various sorts, twenty sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands,...

...dinners to which he was invited. "A most sinful feast again," he exclaims on September 8; "every thing which could delight the eye or allure the taste ;...of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped sillabubs, . . . Parmesan cheese, punch, wine, porter, beer, &c." Yet, after seven weeks' exposure...

...the diarist's shoulder at Judge Willing's, Dr. Cadwalader's, and other houses where they dined : " A most sinful feast again ! everything which could...of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped sillabubs, etc., etc." Even at a " plain but pretty " Quakeress's, with her thees and thous, "beer,...