 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.,...  Home Life in Colonial Days - 160. oldalszerző: Alice Morse Earle - 1899 - 470 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1865 - 580 oldal
...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 ;...creams, jellies, sweetmeats of various sorts, twenty sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped sillabubs, &c. &c., Parmesan cheese, punch,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 660 oldal
...fools, trifles, floating islands, beer, porter, punch, wine, etc. Again, after dining at Mr. Powell's: "A most sinful feast again ! Everything which could...or allure the taste — curds and creams, jellies, sweatmeats of various sorts, twenty sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped syllabubs,... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1898 - 468 oldal
...magnificence, and, above all, abundance under many roofs. " A most sinful feast again," John Adams wrote. " Everything which could delight the eye or allure the...creams, jellies, sweetmeats of various sorts, twenty sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, and whipped sillabubs." These dainties were washed... | |
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - 1901 - 438 oldal
...eatables. His appetite overcame his scruples, although after each feast he scourged himself for yielding. " A most sinful feast again ! everything which could delight the eye or allure the taste." " A mighty feast again ; nothing less than the very best of Claret, Madeira, and Burgundy." " A magnificent... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1902 - 340 oldal
...but at last we got 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,... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1902 - 340 oldal
...but at last we got 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 oldal
...but at last we got swallowed 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,... | |
 | George Elliott Howard - 1905 - 410 oldal
...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 ;...creams, jellies, sweetmeats of various sorts, twenty sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped sillabubs, . . . Parmesan cheese, punch,... | |
 | George Morgan - 1907 - 550 oldal
...the diarist's shoulder at Judge Willing's, Dr. Cadwalader's, and other houses where they dined : " A most sinful feast again ! everything which could...creams, jellies, sweetmeats of various sorts, twenty sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped sillabubs, etc., etc." Even at a " plain... | |
 | Edward Randolph Emerson - 1908 - 532 oldal
...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,...sweetmeats of various sorts, twenty kinds of tarts, fools, floating islands, trifles, whipped sillabubs, etc., Parmesan cheese, punch, wine, porter, beer. Was... | |
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