Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford 1868
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I once travelled by rail in the same carriage with an enthusiastic and impassioned French cook; for three mortal hours did he hurl at my head a divine and conspicuous Philippic against the besotted Philistinism of the British kitchen-maid. Would that there had been, in my seat, to listen sympathetically, instead of me — my eminent predecessor. Among other profound truths, this artist explained with overwhelm- ing eloquence, and at great length, how the outer leaves of lettuces, celery, and the ...like imbibe from the sun and the life-giving air a higher flavour and a finer energy than those which are shrouded within ; but though, Cassandra -like, he everlastingly warned and adjured, the infatuated young woman in question would, under some foolish pretext of cleanliness or tidiness or immemorial custom, keep on trimming PROVINCIAL POETRY. 83 and maiming their vegetables in spite of him. Some- what after their fashion, the re-caster of Chevy Chase into English, whilst removing the rough border out- side and husk, has pared away a little of its native freshness and pith — a little of that spirit and wild fragrance which it had drunk in from the self-sown forests and heather-clad fells of the North.
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