GRACE BEFORE MEAT
nted themselves ? -- he dreamed indeed,
-- As appetite is to dream,
Of meats and drinks, natures refres s.
But s? --
, ood,
And saheir horny beaks
Food to Elijah bringing, even and morn;
taugo abstain from :
also how he fled
Into t, and
Under a juniper; then how awaked
he coals prepared,
And by t,
And ate time after repose,
trengty days:
Sometimes, t ook,
Or as a guest his pulse.
Noton is finelier fancied temperate dreams of to s, troduction of fitting and pertinent?
tically I am no enemy to graces; but practically I o (before meat especially) to involve sometites, of one or anot spurs to our reason, feebly set about t ends of preserving and continuing t blessings to be contemplated at a distance itude; but t of appetite (t fit season for t exercise. t tion, itle to tory prefaces. I grace, and tions to t and drink folloo be less passionate and sensual ttons nor , as a s ances. tizen in ucker, I cannot imagine it a surplice.
I am no Quaker at my food. I confess I am not indifferent to t. tuous morsels of deers fles made to be received e services. I e a man ing not to kno aste in ters. I sinctively from one er in tastes for food. C---- a man cannot certain but . it innocence, I confess a less and less relises. table tribe t ick to asparagus, o inspire gentle ts. I am impatient and querulous under culinary disappointments, as to come tanc