Sketches of History, Politics and Manners: Taken in Dublin, and the North of Ireland, in the Autumn of 1810 ...C. Cradock and W. Joy, 1811 - 294 pages |
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... dinner , and care a great deal more about a leg of lamb , or breast of veal , than either pretty legs or panting bosoms , were they even aided by " the lightning of the eye , the clustering tresses , the white and rounded arms of Miss ...
... dinner , and care a great deal more about a leg of lamb , or breast of veal , than either pretty legs or panting bosoms , were they even aided by " the lightning of the eye , the clustering tresses , the white and rounded arms of Miss ...
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... dinner ; I had regaled myself with the thoughts of it for the last twenty miles - it was lucky I had so well feasted in imagination , as I was doomed to experience the reverse in reality : the dinner was bad , and the wine exe- crable ...
... dinner ; I had regaled myself with the thoughts of it for the last twenty miles - it was lucky I had so well feasted in imagination , as I was doomed to experience the reverse in reality : the dinner was bad , and the wine exe- crable ...
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... dinner for that day , but declined them ; both the gentlemen who gave them were married , and Dublin dames , I knew , no more than Lon- don ones , like to be taken unawares : besides , the motion of the vessel was still in my head , and ...
... dinner for that day , but declined them ; both the gentlemen who gave them were married , and Dublin dames , I knew , no more than Lon- don ones , like to be taken unawares : besides , the motion of the vessel was still in my head , and ...
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... dinner of fish and stewed veal ; ( I must here mention , as an inducement to Epicures to visit this country , that Dublin has fish in much greater perfection , perhaps , than any other capital in Europe ; ) the wine was excellent ; I ...
... dinner of fish and stewed veal ; ( I must here mention , as an inducement to Epicures to visit this country , that Dublin has fish in much greater perfection , perhaps , than any other capital in Europe ; ) the wine was excellent ; I ...
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... dinner ; I question whether the provost , or even the chancellor himself , ( with all due respect I speak it ) had a better : -the fish was delicious ; though not a Roman Catholic , I actually kept Lent , in this instance I fear with no ...
... dinner ; I question whether the provost , or even the chancellor himself , ( with all due respect I speak it ) had a better : -the fish was delicious ; though not a Roman Catholic , I actually kept Lent , in this instance I fear with no ...
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