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for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four o'clock in the morning . And , as it is very unpleasant to make tea , or to pour it out for oneself , paint me a lovely young woman sitting at the table . Thomas de Quincey A ...
for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four o'clock in the morning . And , as it is very unpleasant to make tea , or to pour it out for oneself , paint me a lovely young woman sitting at the table . Thomas de Quincey A ...
Page 86
... o'clock in the morning , before day , and went to market and bought fowls and many other things for dinner , with which I was highly pleased , and the chine of beef was down also before six o'clock , and my own jack , of which I was ...
... o'clock in the morning , before day , and went to market and bought fowls and many other things for dinner , with which I was highly pleased , and the chine of beef was down also before six o'clock , and my own jack , of which I was ...
Page 87
... o'clock this Morning I sent Briton to Weston House to let them know that Mr Taswell was to take a Family Dinner with ... o'clock Mr and Mrs Custance , Lady Bacon and Son , Mr Taswell and Nephew arrived and they dined , drank Coffee and ...
... o'clock this Morning I sent Briton to Weston House to let them know that Mr Taswell was to take a Family Dinner with ... o'clock Mr and Mrs Custance , Lady Bacon and Son , Mr Taswell and Nephew arrived and they dined , drank Coffee and ...
Contents
A Pretty Picture | 3 |
THE BREAKFAST HOUR | 11 |
The Poet at the Breakfast Table | 17 |
Copyright | |
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anchovies appetite asked bacon basket beer black pudding boiled bottle bread and butter breakfast broth brought cakes Charles Dickens cheese chicken coffee cold cook cream cried Crupp dear delicate dine dinner dish Dorothy Wordsworth drank dressed drink eaten Edmond de Goncourt eggs eyes fare feast fire fish fish ball forks fowls George Borrow glass Gorenflot guests hand James Boswell Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Jonathan Swift kitchen ladies leg of mutton look Lord meal meat morning mouth mustard mutton never night o'clock oysters pasty piece plate potatoes pudding Rees Howell Gronow repast Roast Beef round salt Samuel Butler sauce savoury slice soup stomach supper sweet tarts taste thing Thomas Creevey thou toast Tobias Smollett took Vatel veal venison wife wine woman young