 I am always pleased with that particular time of the year which is proper for the pickling of dill and cucumbers; but alas! this cry, like the song of the nightingale, is not heard above two months. It would therefore be worth while to consider whether...  The British Essayists: Spectator - Page 352edited by - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Harriet Louise Keeler - Flowers - 1910 - 592 pages
...muriated with the seeds of Dill," and Addison writes: "I am always pleased with that particular time of the year which is proper for the pickling of Dill and cucumbers." The seeds are like caraway seeds in flavor, but not in shape; the stem and leaves resemble those of... | |
 | Harriet Louise Keeler - Flowers - 1910 - 598 pages
...muriated with the seeds of Dill," and Addison writes: "I am always pleased with that particular time of the year which is proper for the pickling of Dill and cucumbers." The seeds are like caraway seeds in flavor, but not in shape; the stem and leaves resemble those of... | |
 | Rudolf Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - American prose literature - 1923 - 392 pages
...proper for the pickling of Dill and Cucumbers; but alas this Cry, like the Song of the Nightingales, is not heard above two months. It would therefore...deserve our most serious Consideration, how far, in a wellregulated City, those Humorists are to be tolerated, who not contented with the traditional Cries... | |
 | Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - American prose literature - 1923 - 392 pages
...the Musick is wonderfully languishing and melodious. I am always pleased with that particular Time of the Year which is proper for the pickling of Dill...Cucumbers ; but alas this Cry, like the Song of the Nightingales, is not heard above two months. It would therefore be worth while to consider whether... | |
 | George Etherege - 1927 - 260 pages
...Addison writes. In his paper on the Cries of London. " I am always pleased with that particular Time of the Year which is proper for the pickling of Dill...Cucumbers ; but alas this Cry, like the Song of the Nightingales, is not heard above two Months. It would therefore be worth while to consider whether... | |
 | James George Frazer - English essays - 1927 - 486 pages
...and solemn air with which the public were very often asked if they had any chairs to mend. The time of the year which is proper for the pickling of dill and cucumber was celebrated by strains which ravished the soul with an uncommon sweetness ; but alas !... | |
 | Eleanour Sinclair Rohde - Cooking - 1969 - 356 pages
...liqueur. — EG Hayden, Travels round our Village. DILL " I am always pleased with that particular time of the year which is proper for the pickling of dill and cucumbers." ADDISON in The Spectator. For hundreds of years Dill was always grown in herb gardens and used as a... | |
 | Michael Cordner - Literary Collections - 1982 - 372 pages
...Spectator, no. 251 on the cries of the London streettraders: 'I am always pleased with that particular Time of the Year which is proper for the pickling of Dill...Cucumbers; but alas this Cry, like the Song of the Nightingales, is not heard above two Months.' THE EPILOGUE by MR DRYDEN Most modern wits, such monstrous... | |
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