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Pickwick Papers (1836-37) [ Places ]
… and staring about him. “I can’t make this out,” said he, when he came home from the play one night, and was drinking a glass of cold grog, with his back to the wall, in order that he mightn’t be able to fancy there was any one behind him—“I … things these are you tell us of, Sir,’ said Mr. Pickwick, minutely scanning the old man’s countenance, by the aid of his glasses. ‘Strange!’ said the little old man. ‘Nonsense; you think them strange, because you know nothing about it. They … fixtures that were on the place, and, among the rest, was a great lumbering wooden press for papers, with large glass doors, and a green curtain inside; a pretty useless thing for him, for he had no papers to put in it; and as to his …
Fiction | Inn
Anthology
Vauxhall, 1739 [ Places ]
… Ladies look pleased, and the Gentlemen forget the expence, by having their minds busied upon thoughts more delightful. Glass candlesticks with wax lights are mostly used; and, with the addition of the china dishes, plates, &c. in which … Tarts, custards, cheese-cakes, &c. are supplyed the younger company in great perfection; and, with the power of a few glasses of wine, the men grow more complaisant and not less amorous, the Ladies lose some of the constraint under which … it is very common to see a polite Gentleman begging room for a Lady, or for himself: and some young fellows with a glass extraordinary in their heads, take a pleasure in following any Lady they affect to admire, into whatever boat she …
Gardens | Entertainement
Anthology
On our stay in the city of Marseilles, 1826-1831 [ Practices ]
… which they brought high round tables, on which they placed white earthenware plates. In front of every plate they put a glass goblet, a knife, fork and spoon, and on each table there were about two bottles filled with water, a small … here do not eat with their hands and they never eat with someone else’s knife or fork or drink from someone else’s glass. They claim that this is cleaner and healthier. From what one can see among the Franks, they never eat from copper … here do not eat with their hands and they never eat with someone else’s knife or fork or drink from someone else’s glass. They claim that this is cleaner and healthier." … France … Drinking … Text : Rifa‘a Rafi‘ Al-Tahtawi, An Imam in …
France | Drinking
Anthology
Strawberry-hill (1774) [ Places / Objects / People ]
… You first enter a small gloomy hall, paved with hexagon tyles, and lighted by two narrow windows of painted glass, representing saint John and saint Francis. This hall is united with the staircase, and both are hung with a gothic … Vere, earl of Oxford. Turning to the left, through a small passage, on one side of which is a window entirely of painted glass, you enter The REFECTORY, or GREAT PARLOUR. It is thirty feet long, twenty wide, and twelve high; hung with paper …
Aesthetics | Gothic
Anthology
Sterne's ghost at the Hôtel d'Angleterre (1862) [ Residences & Lodgings ]
… excursion (about which my benighted parents never knew anything), ordering for dinner a whiting, a beefsteak, and a glass of negus, and the bill was, dinner 7s., glass of negus 2s., waiter 6d., and only half a crown left, as I was a sinner, for the guard and coachman on the way to …
Inn | France | Tourism
Anthology
A Poem upon Tea (1712) [ Practices ]
… Wine and Mirth a while profusely flow’d. Soon as some Beauty's Health had walk’d the Round, Another's Health succeeding Glasses crown'd. But while these Arts to raise our Joys we use, Our Mirth, our Friends, and ev'n ourselves we lofe. 'Tis … I rove, And only to be drunk is to be Jove. Now raving Bacchus, reeling to his Place, Crowns his Assertion with an ample Glass; And Hebe then replies with modeft Grace. Immortal Pow'rs of Heav'n, and Earth, and Sea, Permit Youth's Goddess to …
Tea | Drinking | Beauty | Charm
Anthology
Peregrine Pickle (1751) [ Places ]
… two or three miserable landscapes, the skins of an otter, seal, and some fishes stuffed; and in one corner stood a glass case, furnished with newts, frogs, lizards, and serpents, preserved in spirits; a human foetus, a calf with two … two or three miserable landscapes, the skins of an otter, seal, and some fishes stuffed; and in one corner stood a glass case, furnished with newts, frogs, lizards, and serpents, preserved in spirits; a human foetus, a calf with two …
Nature | Travel | Fiction | Curiosity
Anthology
The Juice of the Grape (1724) [ Practices ]
… said he, how shall we break them? There’s nothing easier, reply’d I; you need only live well, feed high, take a hearty Glass, and be merry with your Friends; here’s no occasion for a Salivation or any other Physick: The Method I speak of … Pleasure imaginable; and he thank’d God he was now a sound Man. … "... you need only live well, feed high, take a hearty Glass, and be merry with your Friends; here’s no occasion for a Salivation or any other Physick: The Method I speak of …
Drinking | Medicine | Melancholy
Anthology
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