Thomas Love Peacock

Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock

Always and everywhere I have so lived, that I might consume the passing light as if it were not to return.'Palestine soup!' said the Reverend Doctor Opimian, dining with his friend Squire Gryll; 'a curiously complicated misnomer. We have an excellent old vegetable, the artichoke, of which we eat the head; we have another of subsequent, of which we eat the root, and which we also call artichoke, because it resembles the first in flavour, although, me