Oh, The Pleasure Of Eating My Dinner

Our Appetites, Of One Or Another Kind, Are Excellent Spurs To Our Reason, Which Might Otherwise But Feebly Set About The Great Ends Of Preserving And Continuing The Species.

I Like You And Your Book, Ingenious Hone! In Whose Capacious All-embracing Leaves The Very Marrow Of Tradition 's Shown; And All That History, Much That Fiction Weaves.

Think What You Would Have Been Now, If Instead Of Being Fed With Tales And Old Wives' Fables In Childhood, You Had Been Crammed With Geography And Natural History!

I Am, In Plainer Words, A Bundle Of Prejudices - Made Up Of Likings And Dislikings.

Of All Sound Of All Bells... Most Solemn And Touching Is The Peal Which Rings Out The Old Year.