 There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted crackling, as it is well called ; the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming the coy, brittle resistance,...  Scott's Monthly Magazine - Pagina 6161867Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1857 - 498 pagina’s
...contend, to tint of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted, crackling, as it is well called — the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure...brittle resistance — with the adhesive oleaginous — О call it not fat ! but an indefinable sweetness growing up to it— the tender blossoming of... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 564 pagina’s
...seethed, or boiled — but what a sacrifice of the ex terior tegument ! There is no flavour comparable, 1 will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted, crackling as it is well called — the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 pagina’s
...that our ancestors ate them seethed; or boiled — but what a sacrifice of the exterior tegument ! There is no flavor comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well- watched, not over- roasted, crackling, as it is well called — the very teeth are invited to... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1858 - 412 pagina’s
...roast pig. " There is no flavour comparable, I will contend" (said my dear old friend, Charles Lamb), " to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted crackling, as it is well called."—(Dissertation on Roast Pig, Works, i. 282). Crackers are small fireworks, which explode... | |
 | 1859 - 778 pagina’s
...supply him with one paragraph, hoping that its flavor will induce an appetite for a further indulgence. "There is no flavor comparable, I will contend, to...well-watched, not over-roasted crackling, as it is well called : the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet, in overcoming... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 338 pagina’s
...Lamb's "Dissertation upon Roast Pig," and[ the passage upon the leech or bark : — There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp,...wellwatched, not over-roasted crackling, as it is called — the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pagina’s
...ate them seethed, or boiled — but what a sacrifice of the exterior tegument ! There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp,...well-watched, not over-roasted, crackling, as it is well called — the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming... | |
 | Moxon Edward and co - 208 pagina’s
...ate them seethed, or boiled — but what a sacrifice of the exterior tegument ! There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp,...wellwatched, not over-roasted, crackling, as it is well called — the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 pagina’s
...boiled — but what, a , spcj^cfl |O^,,t^e exterior tegument ! , , ,, .,„,„.,,. There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp,...well-watched, not over-roasted, crackling, as it is well called — the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 pagina’s
...ate them seethed, or boiled — but what a sacrifice of the exterior tegument ! There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp,...well-watched, not over-roasted, crackling, as it is well called — the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming... | |
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