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So many beautiful touches are there in the ancient poets so many delicate allusions in history and in anecdote relating to the gratification of the palate, that if a man have no correspondent sympathy with the illustrious epicures of old, he is rendered incapable of enjoying the most beautiful passages, that Come, Sir, the dinner is served: "'Nutrimus lautis mollissima corpora mensis."
So many beautiful touches are there in the ancient poets so many delicate allusions in history and in anecdote relating to the gratification of the palate, that if a man have no correspondent sympathy with the illustrious epicures of old, he is rendered incapable of enjoying the most beautiful passages, that Come, Sir, the dinner is served: "'Nutrimus lautis mollissima corpora mensis."
Professor Ansted includes the Teal in his list, and marks it as occurring in Guernsey and Sark. There is no specimen in the Museum at present. EIDER DUCK. Somateria mollissima, Linnaeus. French, "Canard eider," "Morillon eider." The Eider Duck occasionally straggles to the Channel Islands in the autumn, but very seldom, and the majority of those that do occur are in immature plumage.
See ante, i. 71, and ii. 226. Captain Cook's third voyage. The first two volumes by Captain Cook; the last by Captain King. See ante, ii. 73, 228, 248; iii. 49. quae mollissima fandi Tempora. time wherein the word May softliest be said. MORRIS. Virgil, Aeneids, iv. 293. See ante, i. 71. See ante, i. 203, note 6. Boswell began to eat dinners in the Inner Temple so early as 1775.
THE OSIER. These are cultivated in watery places for making baskets, which are become a profitable article, and are the shoots of one season's growth cut every winter. The species best adapted to this purpose, besides the common osier, are The Salix vitellina. Golden Willow. The Salix monandria. Monandrous Willow. The Salix triandria. Triandrous Willow. The Salix mollissima. Silky-leaved Willow.
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