...more than others, as no man enjoyed life more than he did, though few had less reason to do so. ... His happy constitution (even when he had, with great pains, half demolished it) made him forget everything when he was before a venison pastry, or over a flask of champagne ; and I am persuaded he...

...when she knew anything at first hand of his career — she thus accounts for her cousin's fortitude: "His happy constitution (even when he had, with great pains, half demolished it) made him forget everything when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne." In the Voyage, Fielding...

...contrive to reach. He is in his Lisbon Journal the same person of whom Lady Mary Wortley wrote — ' His happy constitution, even when he had, with great pains, half demolished it, made him forget everything when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of Champagne, and I am persuaded he...

...extolling ' the animal spirits that gave him rapture with his cook-maid' — ' the happy constitution that (even when he had with great pains half demolished it) made him forget every evil when he was before a venison pasty or over a flask of Champagne' — he will perhaps come to her...

...reason to do so, the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment...with great pains, half demolished it) made him forget everything when he was before a venison pasty or over a flask of champagne, and I am persuaded he had...

...(Cross, ii. 242). of his preferment [was] raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery' and thought it 'a nobler and less nauseous employment to be one of the staff officers that conduct nocturnal weddings'.2 Later, Sir John Hawkins ungenerously and inaccurately...

...reason to do so, the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. l should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment...with great pains, half demolished it) made him forget everything when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne; and l am persuaded he...

...reason to do so, the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. ...His happy constitution (even when he had, with great pains, half demolished it) made him forget everything when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne; and I am persuaded that...

...life more than he did . . . His happy Constitution (even when he had, with great pains, halfdemolish'd it) made him forget every thing when he was before a venison Pasty or over a Flask of Champaign, and I am perswaded he has known more happy moments than any Prince upon Earth.'15 But this...