They served up salmon, venison, and wild boars By hundreds, and by dozens, and by scores, ** Hogsheads of honey, kilderkins of mustard, Muttons, and fatted beeves, and bacon swine ; Herons and bitterns, peacock, swan and bustard, Teal, mallard, pigeons,... Original works and minor translations - Stran 222avtor: John Hookham Frere - 1874Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 354 strani
...style ; The steeds were fed and litter'd in the stable, The ladies and the knights sat down to table. 0 The bill of fare (as you may well suppose) Was suited...wild boars By hundreds, and by dozens, and by scores. *" Hogsheads of honey, kilderkins of mustard, 1 Muttons, and fatted beeves, and bacon swine ; Herons... | |
| William Sandys - 1833 - 368 strani
...(alias Frere), in his most amusing national work, describe the dainties at King Arthur's Christmas : — They served up salmon, venison, and wild boars, By hundreds, and by dozens, and by scores. Hogsheads of honey, kilderkins of mustard, Muttons, and fatted beeves, and bacon swine ; Herons and... | |
| Meerut universal magazine - 208 strani
...I thus avoid, and show Whistlecraft's bill of fare, at good King Arthur's sumptuous entertainment. They served up salmon, venison, and wild boars By hundreds, and by dozens, and by scores. Hogsheads of honey, kilderkins of mnstard, Muttons, and fatted beeves, and bacon swine; Herons, and... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 354 strani
...fed and litter'd in the stable, The ladies and the knights sat down to table. " The bill of fare (aa you may well suppose) Was suited to those plentiful...wild boars By hundreds, and by dozens, and by scores. " Hogsheads of honey, kilderkins of mustard, Muttons, and fatted beeves, and bacon swine ; Herons and... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 strani
...son, Nor say one mass to cool the caldron's bubble That boil'd your bones, unless you paid them doable "The bill of fare (as you may well suppose) Was suited to those plentiful old lime&, Before our modem luxuries «row. With truffles and ragouu, and various crimes ; And therefore,... | |
| 1840 - 516 strani
...head of the table. When we read that our ancestors assembled themselves at the festive board, " And served up salmon, venison, and wild boars By hundreds, and by dozens, and by scores," we regard them as a race of men altogether diverse from those that now people our pathways. We can... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 strani
...them double. "The bill of fare (м уоч ma? well suppose) Was sniled to those plentiful old Urn«, "V 1841 A. and W. Galignani"9 Byron George Gordon Byron" George Gordon Byron Byron( proer, I shnll arrange the catalogue in rhvmes: They served up salmon, vrmson. and wild boars. By hundreds,... | |
| John Hookham Frere - 1842 - 148 strani
...The steeds were fed and litter'd in the stable, The ladies and the knights sat down to table. III. The bill of fare (as you may well suppose) Was suited...prose I shall arrange the catalogue in rhymes : They serv'd up salmon, venison, and wild boars By hundreds, and by dozens, and by scores. 8 IV. Hogsheads... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 strani
...style ; The steeds were fed and litter'd in the stable, The ladies and the knights sat down to table. M of life to lose the worst ! That grief — though...though fatal — was thy flrst! Thrice happy ! ne'er ргоке I shall arrange the catalogue in rhymes : They served up salmon, venison, ana wild boars... | |
| Elizabeth Stone - 1845 - 472 strani
...only one article of provision for the feast. This sounds like romance, yet it is matter of history.* " They served up salmon, venison, and wild boars, By hundreds, and by dozens, and by scores. Hogsheads of honey, kilderkins of mustard, Muttons and fatted beeves, and bacon swine ; Herons and... | |
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