syllabub-throated

Updated: May 27, 2025

How a man who could write "The Wonders of the Lane" and "The Dying Boy to the Sloe Blossom" could stoop to malignant drivel about "palaced worms," "this syllabub-throated logician," and so forth, is strange enough to understand, especially as he had no excuse of personal suffering.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)