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" Much victuals serves for gluttony, to fatten men like swine, ' But he's a frugal man indeed that with a leaf can dine, ' And needs no napkins for his hands his finger's ends to wipe, ' But keeps his kitchen in a box, and roast meat in a pipe. "
Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's - Page 327
by John Pendleton Kennedy - 1860 - 432 pages
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The Poetical Note-book and Epigrammatic Museum: Containing More Than One ...

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...
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Saturday Night: Comprising a Review of New Publications, Biography ..., Volume 1

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...
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The twenty-ninth of May: rare doings at the Restoration, by Ephraim Hardcastle

William Henry Pyne - English fiction - 1825 - 762 pages
...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...
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Church-yard gleanings and epigrammatic scraps, a collection of epitaphs and ...

William Pulleyn - 1829 - 302 pages
...dainty meats I do defy, Which feed men fat as swine ; He is a frugal man indeed Who on a leaf can dine. He needs no napkin for his hands, ' His finger-ends to wipe, That keeps his kitchen in a box, And roasts meat in a pipe. But Peter Haustio, who wrote AD 1651, styles tobacco — A deadly weed, which...
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The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine

Medicine - 1840 - 684 pages
...He is a frugal man indeed. That on a leaf can dine. He needs no napkin for his hand. His finger ends to wipe, That keeps his kitchen in a box. And roast meat in a pipe." Sanatory Effects of Tobacco. — Our forefathers set a great value on them, and with reason. For, "...
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Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly ..., Volume 2

Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...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,...
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Peter Parley's Illustrations of Commerce

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...
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The Humorous Poetry of the English Language: From Chaucer to Saxe

James Parton - English poetry - 1856 - 720 pages
...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...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6

1860 - 800 pages
...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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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 54

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1859 - 860 pages
...indeed, that with a leaf can dine, And needs no napkins for his hands his fingers' ends to wipe. But keeps his kitchen in a box, and roast meat in a pipe.' Near the commencement of the seventeenth century, tobacco was very generally used in England and on...
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