Table Traits with Something on Them

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Redfield, 1855 - 489 pages

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Page 484 - He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat : and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
Page 351 - tis a fast, to dole Thy sheaf of wheat And meat Unto the hungry soul. It is to fast from strife, From old debate And hate To circumcise thy life. To show a heart grief-rent ; To starve thy sin, Not bin ; And that's to keep thy Lent.
Page 105 - At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. " Some people," said he, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Page 66 - In Covent Garden to-night, going to fetch home my wife, I stopped at the great Coffee-house 1 there, where I never was before : where Dryden, the poet, I knew at Cambridge, and all the wits of the town, and Harris the player, and Mr. Hoole, of our College. And, had I had time then, or could at other times, it will be good coming thither, for there, I perceive, is very witty and pleasant discourse.
Page 53 - twixt reading and Bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon...
Page 301 - Be not a beast in courtesy, but stay, Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. Wine above all things doth God's stamp deface.
Page 230 - Thence home ; -and there find one laying of my, napkins against to-morrow in figures of all sorts, which is mighty pretty ; and it seems, it is his trade, and he gets much money by it...
Page 229 - I expected musique, but there was none but only trumpets and drums, which displeased me. The dinner, it seems, is made by the Mayor and two Sheriffs for the time being, the Lord Mayor paying one half, and they the other. And the whole, Proby says, is reckoned to come to about 7 or ^800 at most.
Page 137 - ... undying magic. Demeter, the divine and universal Mother, was the oldest of all Greek divinities, for the Pelasgians of Arcadia worshipped her in the form of a goddess with the head of a horse, holding a dove in one hand and a dolphin in the other. This signified that she had given birth to the animals of the earth, the birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea.
Page 297 - The lord of the festival* was there, and seemed neither ashamed nor vain of the expense of his pleasures. At supper she offered him Tokay, and told him she believed he would find it good. The supper was in two rooms and very fine, and on all the sideboards, and even on the chairs, were pyramids and troughs of strawberries and cherries ; you would have thought she was kept by Vertumnus.

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