 | James Boswell - 1885 - 490 pages
...less than delicate : a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef,...he sought for, and professed to desire : and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his port wine. For the last twelve years, however,... | |
 | Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 398 pages
...perspiration was visible.'* A leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties.! His attack on a pie was not at all slackened by the circumstance that the crust had been made with... | |
 | Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 394 pages
...perspiration was visible.'* A leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties.t His attack on a pie was not at all slackened by the circumstance that the crust had been... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 pages
...less than delicate ; a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal-pye with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef,...the effect he sought for, and professed to desire 2 ; and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his Port wine. For the last twelve years... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pages
...less than delicate ; a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal-pye with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef,...flavour, but the effect he sought for, and professed to desire2; and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his Port wine. For the last twelve... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 pages
...less than delicate ; a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal-pye with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef,...flavour, but the effect he sought for, and professed to desire2; and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his Port wine. For the last twelve... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 pages
...less than delicate ; a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal-pye with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties." 1 See p. 141. MRS THRALE'S BREAKFAST-TABLE Johnson expressed strong views to Mrs Thrale about children's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1922 - 562 pages
...not very delicate : " A leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal-pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties." behaviour which many have recommended and practised. He disapproved of it : and said, " I never considered... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2006 - 302 pages
...nothing less than delicate: a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef,...effect, he sought for, and professed to desire; and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his port wine. For the last twelve years, however,... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2000 - 270 pages
...nothing less than delicate; a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal-pye with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef,...effect he sought for, and professed to desire; and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his Port wine. For the last twelve years however,... | |
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Johnson's own notions about eating however were nothing less than delicate : a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties... 
