Name: Horæ Nauseæ
Author: Sir Lawrence Peel

Quotes from Horæ Nauseæ (Sir Lawrence Peel)

“ Or an ark where man, beast, bird, and insect convene,
And each living creature on board is unclean.
II.
Should slumber miraculous seal up your eyes,
No chanticleer issues a summons to rise,
You’ve the music of hounds, and should that fail to vex,
It gives place to the sound of men swobbing the decks.
III.
In the stillness of night some fond fancies invade,
Perchance you may dream that some fair, favour’d maid
With delicate fingers is twining your hair,
And you wake to find cockroaches, not fingers, there. ”

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Sir Lawrence Peel, Horæ Nauseæ

“ A mother’s love doth well from God on high?
Who hath not heard, in solitude apart,
God’s voice upon the wind? Who hath not seen
And felt Him present? seen Him earth pervade?
Each spring, their wither’d crowns renew with green
In aged trees? seen Him in depths of shade? ”

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Sir Lawrence Peel, Horæ Nauseæ

“ But in my opinion this reading, though ingenious, is not correct; the true sense of the expression is potatoes carried by water, that is, potatoes eaten at sea. Murphyius, however, that intemperate though erudite Hibernian critic, declares that it means any potato not Irish, which last alone, as he says, were free when dressed from superfluous moisture. He contends, that the potato esteemed by epicures was a mealy potato. ”

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Sir Lawrence Peel, Horæ Nauseæ

“ Some say that mutton was made to resemble venison, by being roasted with the wool on. Others, that it was the flesh of a seven-year old male, not a wether. But neither of these conjectures is correct. The meat was probably steeped in a brine compounded of wine, salt, spices, sugar, and other condiments, and sprinkled with Irish blackguard and brickdust.
[4] “Catch.” Some critics would substitute “reach” for “catch.” But who does not see the witty allusion to the unsteadiness of the table, to which these dull dogs are blind?
[5] “Still.” Free from motion.
[6] “Watery potatoes.” ”

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Sir Lawrence Peel, Horæ Nauseæ

“ Always I hated civic [2] entertainments:
Mutton disgusts me simulating [3] ven’son,
Catch [4] me no fish hermetically fasten’d,
Harris, or oysters. [61]
Still [5] I could feast on watery [6] potatoes. ”

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Sir Lawrence Peel, Horæ Nauseæ

“ This implies the departure from the table of some squeamish person without the “animus revertendi.”
[9] “Cheaply benignant,” that is, dispensing things not its own, liberal at the expense of others; as a generous churchwarden, a chairman distributing prizes, a prime minister filling up a pension-list, a House of Commons voting supplies, or an attorney marking undelivered briefs for a son. ”

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Sir Lawrence Peel, Horæ Nauseæ

“ Some understand by it “dressed in, or by means of water,” as potatoes boiled or steamed, in opposition to roasted, baked, or fried potatoes, his preference for which the author is supposed to insinuate. ”

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Sir Lawrence Peel, Horæ Nauseæ

“ Mr. Adipocire, an eminent and reflecting Tallow Chandler. Mrs. Adipocire, an every-day sort of Woman. Time—Evening. The Sea-shore.
MR. A.
How harden’d is the man who has not felt
His heart ’neath Nature’s influences melt! ”

Sir Lawrence Peel

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