| François Rabelais - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...hourglasses and dials, as being unnecessary things, there being no clock more regular than the belly. To rise at five, to dine at nine, To sup at five, to sleep at nine. Th« * Gold kalf-cromns.] Cyrus, being reduced to beggary in the other world, beggedtpktetus to bestow... | |
| Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...supper at five in the afternoon, according to the following verses which were then often repeated: To rise at five, to dine at nine, To sup at five, to bed at nine, Makes a man live to marly-nine. Lcrcr a cinq, dinner a neuf, Sonper u cinq, coueher a... | |
| Stephen Reynolds Clarke - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 462
...: " Lever a cinq, diner a neuf, Souper a cinq, coucher a neuf, Fait vivre d'ans nonante et neuf." " To rise at five, to dine at nine, To sup at five, to bed at nine, Makes a man live to ninety-nine." If we substitute breakfast for dinner, and dinner for... | |
| Stephen Reynolds Clarke - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...: " Lever a cinq, diner a ncuf, Souper a cinq, coucher a neuf, Fait vivre d'ans nonante et ncuf." " To rise at five, to dine at nine, To sup at five, to bed at nine, Makes a man live to ninety-nine." If we substitute breakfast for dinner, and dinner for... | |
| James Orange - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...not only gives us the number of their meals in a day, but the time at which they were taken : — " To rise at five, to dine at nine, To sup at five, to bed at nine, Makes a man live to ninety-nine. The bread of the aristocracy was of the finest wheat,... | |
| John Hague Bloom - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...neuf, Souper a cinq,— coucher a neuf, Fait vivre d'ans nonnante et neufa. • 2 (THUS MODERNIZED.) To rise at five, — to dine at nine, To sup at five, — to bed at nine, Makes a man live to ninety-nine ; a system which might not unadvantageously be practised... | |
| John Mason Neale - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...— dinner at nine in the morning ; and supper at five in the afternoon. And an old rhyme says, — To rise at five, to dine at nine. To sup at five, to bed at nine, Makes a man live to ninety-nine. William was very fond of giving splendid banquets ; he... | |
| 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 486
...: " Lever a cinq, diner a neuf, souper a cinq, coucher a neuf, font vivre a quatre vingt dix neuf." To rise at five, to dine at nine, to sup at five, to bed at nine, make a man live to ninety and nine. Le Comte gentil de grand valeur Y mena alors sa chere... | |
| James Eccleston - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...Lever a cinque, diner a neuf, Souper a cinque, coucher a neuf, Fait vivre d'ans nonante et neuf." " To rise at five, to dine at nine, To sup at five, to bed at nine, Makes a man live to ninety-nine." In connexion with this custom of retiring to rest at... | |
| Edward Farr - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...were thought to be conducive to health and longevity. They often repeated the following lines : — " To rise at five, to dine at nine, To sup at five, to bed at nine, Makes a man live to ninety-nine." The entertainments of kings and nobles were often very... | |
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