So far as I am a man of really individual attributes I veil my face ; nor am I, nor have I ever been, one of those supremely hospitable people who serve up their own hearts, delicately fried, with brain sauce, as a tidbit for their beloved public. Character and Characteristic Men - Page 211by Edwin Percy Whipple - 1866 - 324 pagesFull view - About this book
| Larry John Reynolds - 2001 - 236 pages
...retract such naked statements, he disclaimed them, tartly reminding his reader he positively was not "one of those supremely hospitable people, who serve...own hearts delicately fried, with brain-sauce, as a tidbit for their beloved public."27 In all, though, the elegaic and plangent tone of "The Old Manse"... | |
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