GRACE BEFORE MEAT
It is to praise the Gods amiss.
I , scarce consciously per in clergymen and ot of sances ional tone put on for a fe rid of some uneasy sensation of t te, or most conscientious in ty; but in mind tibility of tional gratitude.
I ians sit do table, like o troug remembering t doites must run riot, and t pamper t and are ransacked, I ion to a fitter season, e is laid; emperate diet and restricted distony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for t, ure better, o t a blessing. e may be gratefully sensible of t is a meaner and inferior gratitude: but t of tenance, not relis delicacies; t t frame or composure, I y cion at some great , , in all probability, t tient o commence ttle sense of true temperance) as t is feel ions a little clouded, teams mingling ing tar sacrifice.
t satire upon full tables and surfeits is t emptation in the wilderness:
A table richly spread in regal mode,
its of noblest sort
And savour; beasts of chase, or fowl of game,
In pastry built, or from t, or boiled,
Gris-amber-steamed; all fish from sea or shore,
Fres or purling brook, for which was drained
Pontus, and Lucrine bay, and Afric coast.
tempter, I you, t tes tory preface of a benediction. to graces s Cambridge? temptation fitter for a is too civic and culinary, and ts altogetion of t deep, abstracted, y artillery of sauces, ion to ts and plain . disturbed augter. to temperate fantasies of t sort of feasts prese