 Not long after the dram, may be expected the breakfast, a meal in which the Scots, whether of the lowlands or mountains, must be confessed to excel us. The tea and coffee are accompanied not only with butter, but with honey, conserves, and marmalades....  The works of Samuel Johnson - Seite 273von Samuel Johnson - 1824Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 Seiten
...permission to leave him for a day, he being unable 1 Johnson also complained of the cheese. ' In the islands they do what I found it not very easy to endure. They...less grateful odours with the fragrance of the tea.' Works, ix. 52. ' 'The estate has not, during four hundred years, gained or lost a single acre.' ft.... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 378 Seiten
...coffee are accompanied not only with butter, but with honey, conserves, and marmalades. If an epicure could remove by a wish, in quest of sensual gratifications,...found it not very easy to endure. They pollute the tea. table by plates piled with large slices of Cheshire cheese, which mingles its less graceful odours... | |
 | John Adams - 1816 - 352 Seiten
...conserves, and marmalades. If an epicure could remove by a wish, in quest of sensual gratifications^wherever he had supped, he would breakfast in Scotland. In...cheese, which mingles its less grateful odours with the fra»rance of the tea. Where many questions are to be asked, some will be omitted. I forgot to enquire... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 572 Seiten
...coffee are accompanied not only with butter, but with honey, conserves, and marmalades. If an epicure could remove by a wish, in quest of sensual gratifications,...are to be asked, some will be omitted. I forgot to enquire how they were supplied with so much exotick luxury. Perhaps the French may bring them wine... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 444 Seiten
...coffee are accompanied not only with butter, but with honey, conserves, and marmalades. If an epicure could remove by a wish, in quest of sensual gratifications, wherever he had supped he would breakfast io Scotland. In the islands, however, they do what I found it not very easy to endure. They pollute... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 680 Seiten
...coffee, are accompanied not only with butter, but with honey, conserves, and marmalades. If an epicure could remove by a wish, in quest of sensual gratifications, wherever he had supped he would breakfast iu Scotland. In the islands, however, they do what I found it not very easy to endure. They pollute... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 376 Seiten
...which the Scots, whether of the Lowlands or mountains, must be confessed to excel us. li an epicure could remove by a wish in quest of sensual gratifications,...wherever he had supped he would breakfast in Scotland." Dinner, however, was the chief meal with JOHNSON, and with him it was a serious business. "Sir," said... | |
 | Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society - 1890 - 974 Seiten
...his hosts. It was after a Hebridean dejeuner that he penned the immortal sentence — " If an epicure could remove by a wish, in quest of sensual gratifications,...wherever he had supped he would breakfast in Scotland." He found, too, the crockery for common use to be of " Queen's ware," and silver used on all occasions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1906 - 270 Seiten
...coffee are accompanied not only with butter, but with honey, conserves, and marmalades. If an epicure could remove by a wish in quest of sensual gratifications,...Scotland. In the islands, however, they do what I found is not very easy to endure. They pollute the teatable by plates piled with large slices of Cheshire... | |
 | Charles Harding Firth, Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - 1915 - 228 Seiten
...glass of whisky' was one of his dicta. Another observation of the old man was that, 'if an epicure could remove by a wish, in quest of sensual gratifications,...wherever he had supped he would breakfast in Scotland '. I always feel pleasure in the confession : ' I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might... | |
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