 Many thanks, my dear Sir, for your kind present of game. If there is a pure and elevated pleasure in this world, it is the roast pheasant and bread sauce — barn door fowls for dissenters, but for the real churchman, the thirty-nine times articled clerk...  The Pheasant: Natural History - Pągina 263per Hugh Alexander Macpherson, Alexander Innes Shand - 1895 - 265 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Edmund Burke - 1871 - 670 pągines
...note from Sydney Smith, thanking Mr. Barham for some game : " Many thanks," says the witty Canon, " for your kind present of game. If there is a pure and elevated pleasure in the world it is roast pheasant and bread sauce : barn-door fowls for Disenters ; but for the real Churchman... | |
 | 1871 - 878 pągines
...is proof. Barham sent Smith some game : here is the other Canon's epigrammatic ironic reply : — " Many thanks, my dear sir, for your kind present of...a pure and elevated pleasure in this world, it is the roast pheasant and bread sauce — barn-door fowls for Dissenters, but for the real Churchman,... | |
 | Thomas Ingoldsby - 1852 - 394 pągines
...nature, that we cannot refrain from inserting it. It runs as follows:— " Green-street, Monday, " Many thanks, my dear Sir, for your kind present of...this world, it is that of roast pheasant and bread sauce;—barn-door fowls for dissenters, but for the real churchman, the thirty-nine times articled... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 482 pągines
...our course right onward. Yours most truly, F. MOBLEY. (To the Rev. RH Jiarham, London, about 1«42.) Many thanks, my dear Sir, for your kind present of...this world, it is that of roast pheasant and bread saure ; — barn-door fowls for dissenters, but for the real churchman, the thirty-nine times articled... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 490 pągines
...Yours most truty , " THE OPERA. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GAME. (To the Jiev. RH Barliam, London, about 1842.) Many thanks, my dear Sir, for your kind present of game. If I here is a pure and elevated pleasure in this world, it is that of roast pheasant and bread sauce... | |
 | Jest book - 1864 - 396 pągines
...Smith, a brace of pheasants, the present was acknowledged in the following characteristic epistle: " Many thanks, my dear sir, for your kind present of...world, it is that of roast pheasant and bread sauce ; bam-door fowls for dissenters, but for the real churchman, the thirty-nine times articled clerk,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1865 - 478 pągines
...steer our course right onward. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GAME. (To the Rev. RH Barham, London, about 1842.) Many thanks, my dear Sir, for your kind present of...this world, it is that of roast pheasant and bread sauce;—barn-door fowls for dissenters, but for the real churchman, the thirty-nine times articled... | |
 | Thomas Ingoldsby, Richard Harris Dalton Barham - 1870 - 352 pągines
...following highly characteristic note : — To the Rev. RH Barham. ' 39 Green Street, November 15, 1841. ' Many thanks, my dear Sir, for your kind present of...a pure and elevated pleasure in this world, it is the roast pheasant and bread sauce — barn door fowls for dissenters, but for the real churchman,... | |
 | Thomas Ingoldsby, Richard Harris Dalton Barham - 1870 - 682 pągines
...following highly characteristic note : — To the Rev. RH Barham. ' 39 Green Street, November 15, 1841. 'Many thanks, my dear Sir, for your kind present of...a pure and elevated pleasure in this world, it is the roast pheasant and bread sauce — barn door fowls for dissenters, but for the real churchman,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1871 - 980 pągines
...sent him a brace of pheasants, the present was acknowledged in the following characteristic reply: "Many thanks, my dear Sir, for your kind present of...fowls for dissenters ; but for the real churchman, the thirty-nine-times-articled clerk, the pheasant, the pheasant!" A more laconic note, in acknowledgment... | |
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