 | British prose literature - 1821 - 346 pages
...introduced French rolls, costards, minced pies, and plum-pudding, which they are very fond of. It is impossible to bring them to conform to syllabub, which...here is as good as in any part of Great Britain. I Tim afraid I have bragged of this before ; but when you do not answer any part of my letters, I suppose... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1897 - 610 pages
...and plum' pudding, which they are very fond of. 'Tis impossible to bring them to conform to sillabub, which is so unnatural a mixture in their eyes, they...here is as good as in any part of Great Britain.' From all which it is plain that her life was neither wholly idle nor wholly selfish, for here is the... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 510 pages
...some saint or other, since I was to have been represented with a book in my hand, which would have passed for a proof of canonization. This compliment...they are become so skilful from my instructions." Again she writes from the same place, under date the 10th of June, 1753: — " I have been these six... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 288 pages
...they continued in the same ignorance Misson complains of, (as you may see in his letter from Padua.) 1 have introduced French rolls, custards, minced pies,...they are become so skilful from my instructions." Again she writes from the same place, under date the 10th of June, 1753: — " I have been these six... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 454 pages
...and plumb pudding, which they are very fond of. 'Tis impossible to bring them to conform to sillabub, which is so unnatural a mixture in their eyes, they...it : but I expect immortality from the science of butter making, in which they are become so skilful from my instructions. I can assure you here is as... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 446 pages
...and plumb pudding, which they are very fond of. 'Tis impossible to bring them to conform to sillabub, which is so unnatural a mixture in their eyes, they...eat it: but I expect immortality from the science of butter making, in which they are become so skilful from my instructions. I can assure you here is as... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 460 pages
...pudding, which they are very fond ot 'Tis impossible to bring them to conform to sillabub, which is to unnatural a mixture in their eyes, they are even shocked...it : but I expect immortality from the science of butter making, in which they are become so skilful from my instructions. I can assure you here is as... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - England - 1845 - 472 pages
...minced-pies, and plum-pudding, which they are very fond of. Tis impossible to get them to conform to sillabub, which is so unnatural a mixture in their eyes they...they are become so skilful from my instructions." " Disner et Soupper fourniront A 1'humaine necessite :" Of the intrinsic truth of this assertion there... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 518 pages
...some saint or other, since I was to have been represented with a book in my hand, which would have passed for a proof of canonization. This compliment...they are become so skilful from my instructions." Again she writes from the same place, under date the 10th of June, 1753 : — " I have been these six... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 516 pages
...they continued in the same ignorance Misson complains of, (as you may see in his letter from Padua.) 1 have introduced French rolls, custards, minced pies,...they are become so skilful from my instructions." Again she writes from the same place, under date the 10th of June, 1753 : — " I have been these six... | |
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Tis impossible to bring them to conform to syllabub, which is so unnatural a mixture in their eyes, they are even shocked to see me eat it: but I expect immortality from the science of butter-making, in which they are become so skilful from my instructions.... 
