Powel's with and many others; a most sinful feast again! everything which could delight the eye or allure the taste; curds and creams, jellies, sweetmeats of various sorts, twenty sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped sillibub &c.,... The American Revolution - Seite 205von George Otto Trevelyan - 1898Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1865 - 580 Seiten
...Dr. Steptoe, Mr. Goldsborough, Mr. Johnson, and many others ; a most sinful feast again ! every thing which could delight the eye or allure the taste ;...sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped sillabubs, &c. &c., Parmesan cheese, punch, wine, porter, beer, &c. At evening we climbed up... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 660 Seiten
...islands, beer, porter, punch, wine, etc. Again, after dining at Mr. Powell's: "A most sinful feast again ! Everything which could delight the eye, or allure the taste — curds and creams, jellies, sweatmeats of various sorts, twenty sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped syllabubs,... | |
| Alice Morse Earle - 1898 - 560 Seiten
...fools, etc., with a dessert of fruits, raisins, almonds, pears, peaches." " A most sinful feast again ! everything which could delight the eye or allure the...creams, jellies, sweetmeats of various sorts, twenty kinds of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped sillabubs, etc. Parmesan cheese, punch, wine,... | |
| Edwin Erle Sparks - 1901 - 438 Seiten
...fools, trifles, floating islands, beer, porter, punch, wine, and a long &c." At another feast he had " curds and creams, jellies, sweetmeats of various sorts,...sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped sillabubs, &c. &c. Parmesan cheese, punch, wine, porter, beer, &c." To Mrs. Adams he declared... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 1902 - 340 Seiten
...swallowed up in politics. Thursday. — Dined at Mr. Powell's with many others. A most sinful feast again! Everything which could delight the eye or allure the taste: curds and cream jellies, sweetmeats of various sorts, twenty sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands,... | |
| 1902 - 348 Seiten
...up in politics. Thursday. — Dined at Mr. Powell's with many oth ers. A most sinful feast again ! Everything which could delight the eye or allure the taste : curds and cream jellies, sweetmeats of various sorts, twenty sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands,... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 1902 - 340 Seiten
...swallowed up in politics. Thursday. — Dined at Mr. Powell's with many others. A most sinful feast again ! Everything which could delight the eye or allure the taste: curds and cream jellies, sweetmeats of various sorts, twenty sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands,... | |
| George Elliott Howard - 1905 - 410 Seiten
...dinners to which he was invited. "A most sinful feast again," he exclaims on September 8; "every thing which could delight the eye or allure the taste ;...sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped sillabubs, . . . Parmesan cheese, punch, wine, porter, beer, &c." Yet, after seven weeks' exposure... | |
| Edward Randolph Emerson - 1908 - 532 Seiten
...trifles, floating islands, beer, punch, wine and a long etc. ... A most sinful feast again! everything to delight the eye or allure the taste : curds and creams, jellies, sweetmeats of various sorts, twenty kinds of tarts, fools, floating islands, trifles, whipped sillabubs, etc., Parmesan cheese, punch,... | |
| General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) - 1909 - 116 Seiten
...functions which he attended. Thus, under date of September 8th, we read: "A most sinful feast again. Everything which could delight the eye or allure the...sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped sillabubs, Parmesan cheese, punch, wine, porter, beer, &c."* Verily the fathers must have had... | |
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