Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not burn him so much now ; still, he licked his fingers from a sort of habit. The truth at length broke into his slow understanding that it was the pig that smelt so, and the pig that tasted so delicious... Poems and Essays - Page 253by Charles Lamb - 1879 - 639 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Maunder - Classical dictionaries - 1853 - 478 pages
...his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it), he tasted — erackling ! Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not burn...licked his' fingers from a sort of habit. The truth, nt length, broke into his slow understanding, that it was the pig that smelled so, and the pig that... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — crackling! Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not burn...that tasted so delicious ; and, surrendering himself up to the new-born pleasure, he fell to tearing up whole handfuls of the scorched skin with the flesh... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1855 - 624 pages
...his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — crackling ! Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not burn...from a sort of habit. The truth at length broke into hia slow understanding, that it was the pig that smelt so, and the pig that tasted so delicious ; and,... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — crackling ! Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not burn...that tasted so delicious ; and, surrendering himself up to the new-born pleasure, he fell to tearing up whole handfuls of the scorched skin with the flesh... | |
| 1857 - 498 pages
...his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — crackling! Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not burn...the pig that tasted so delicious ; and surrendering himsell up to the new-born pleasure, he fell to tearing up whole handfulls of the scorched akin with... | |
| William Hone - 1859 - 882 pages
...his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had kn wn it), he tasted — crackling! Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not burn...that tasted so delicious ; and, surrendering himself up to the newhorn pleasure, he fell to tearing up whole n.indfuls of the scorched skin with the Hesh... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — crackling ! Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not burn...that tasted so delicious ; and, surrendering himself up to the new-born pleasure, he fell to tearing up whole handfuls of the scorched skin with the flesh... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...in his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted—crackling I Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not...that tasted so delicious ; and surrendering himself up to the new-born pleasure, he fell to tearing up whole handfuls of the scorched skin with the flesh... | |
| Moxon Edward and co - 208 pages
...his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — crackling ! Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not burn...that tasted so delicious; and surrendering himself up to the new-born pleasure, he fell to tearing up whole handfuls of the scorched skin with the flesh... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 pages
...his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — cr adding! Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not burn...that tasted so delicious ; and surrendering himself up to the newborn pleasure, he fell to tearing up whole handfuls of the scorched skin with the flesh... | |
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