 ... some idea of the extravagance with which this, as well as other dishes, was prepared for the gorgeous revels of the olden times : Men may talk of country Christmasses, Their thirty pound butter'd eggs, their pies of carps...  Notes and Queries - Page 1181906Full view - About this book
 | Philip Massinger - 1813 - 616 pages
...butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues, Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the carcases Of three fat wethers bruised for gravy, to Make sauce for a single peacock ; yet their feasts Were fasts, compared with the city's. Trade. What dear dainty Was it, thou murmur'st... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues ; Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris; the carcates of three fat wethers bruised for gravy to make sauce for a single peacock.' ties assigned them, however eccentric. They had an old fashioned look; having, for the most part, been... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues : Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris ; the carcases of three fat wethers bruised for gravy to make sauce for a single peacock ! readers, who may not have that foolish fondness for odd and obsolete things to which I am a little... | |
 | 1822 - 522 pages
...butter'd eggs, their pie* of carp's tongues, Their pheasant's clrcnch'd with ambergris, the carcases Of three fat wethers bruised for gravy, to Make sauce for a single peacock ; yet their feasts Were fasts, compared with the city's." It was the custom in the houses of the countrv-gcntleinen... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1830 - 396 pages
...country-christmasses and court-gluttony, Their thirty-pound butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues, Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the carcasses...bruised for gravy to Make sauce for a single peacock ; yet their feasts Were fasts, compared witli the city's. Trade. What dear dainty Was it thou murmur'st... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1830 - 406 pages
...country-christmasses and court-gluttony, Their thirty-pound butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues, Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the carcasses...bruised for gravy to Make sauce for a single peacock ; yet their feasts Were fasts, compared with the city's. Trade. What dear dainty Was it thou murmur'st... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1830 - 562 pages
...butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues, Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the car-. casses Of three fat wethers bruised for gravy to Make sauce for a single peacock ; yet their feasts Were fasts, compared with the city's. Trade. Whnt dear dainty Was it thou murmur'st... | |
 | William Sandys - Carols - 1833 - 370 pages
...thirty-pound butter d eggs, their pies of carps tongues, Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the carcases Of three fat wethers bruised for gravy, to Make sauce for a single peacock ; yet their feasts Were fasts compared with the City's. Heath,-)- in the middle of the last century,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues : Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris ; the carcases of three fat wethers bruised for gravy, to make sauce for a single peacock / entered readily into the full spirit of them, and seemed all well versed in their parts ; having... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...butter'd eggs, their pies of carps' tongues, Their pheasants drench'd with ambergris, the carcases g ; yet their feasts Were faste, compared with the city's. "f It was the custom in the houses of the... | |
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