| George Wentworth - English poetry - 1824 - 378 pages
...man indeed That on a leaf can dine. He needs no napkin for his hands, His fingers' ends to wipe, Then keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat in a pipe. THE GAME OF CHANCE. Imitated from the French. One night a youth and maiden met, Who chanc'd to sit... | |
| 1824 - 486 pages
...man indeed That on a leaf can dine. He needs no napkin for his hands, His fingers' ends to wipe, Then keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat in a pipe. FRENCH CARD. The following Is a literal copy of a French card of address: — " The Professor Guirand... | |
| William Henry Pyne - English fiction - 1825 - 762 pages
...; He is a frugal man indeed That on a leaf can dine. He needs no napkin for bis hands, His fingers ends to wipe ; That keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat in a pipe." Whether in compliment to the king, or in honest abhorrence of this extravagant custom, it were perhaps... | |
| Medicine - 1840 - 632 pages
...leaf can dine. He needs no napkin for his hand, His finger ends to wipe, That keeps his kitchen inva box, And roast meat in a pipe." Sanatory Effects of...flowers adhere to the head of the plant indicates the Infunilihulum Cerebri and Pituitary Gland. In the next place, the three membranes of which its leaves... | |
| Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...swine: He is a frugal man indeed That on a leaf can dine. He needs no napkin for his hands His fingers' ends to wipe, That keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat in a pipe." In the Hymnus Tabaci by Raphael Thorius, made English by Peter Hausted, Master of Arts, Camb. 1651,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Commercial products - 1849 - 164 pages
...frugal man indeed That on a teaf can dine. He needs no napkin for his hands, His fingers' ends to wife, That keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat in a pipe." We jannot say much for the morality or good sense of this ditty, though we must allow it would be a... | |
| John Pendleton Kennedy - Maryland - 1854 - 444 pages
...by the interposition of Kate of Warrington : '• He needs no napkin for his hands. His flnger-ends to wipe, That keeps his kitchen in a box And roast meat in a pipe." '"Marry, I can troll it with the best of them yet !" he said, evidently proud of his performance, as... | |
| James Parton - English poetry - 1856 - 720 pages
...He is a frugal man indeed That on a leaf can dine ! He needs no napkin for his hands, His finger's ends to wipe, That keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat in his pipe ! AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING. " Harry, I can not think," says Dick, " What makes my ankles... | |
| 1860 - 800 pages
...He is a frugal man, indeed, That on a leaf can dine. " He needs no nnpkin for his hands His fingers' ends to wipe, That keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat iu a pipe." And so on, the singers of succeeding years, usque ad nauseam, — a loathing equalled only... | |
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