 | Charles Dickens - 2004 - 1354 頁
...be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. Now, they're not a going - none of 'em - ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. And now you know the place.' Mr Harthouse professed himself in the highest degree instructed and refreshed,... | |
 | Tamara S. Wagner, Narin Hassan - 2007 - 312 頁
...that nonetheless address simple, instinctive states of comfort and satiety. "There's not," he claims, "a Hand in this town, Sir, man, woman, or child, but...fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon" (96). In Bounderby's sweeping vision of Coketown, the hunger for luxury is more than an apt metaphor... | |
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There's not a Hand in this town, sir, man, woman, or child, but has one ultimate object in life. That object is, to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. 
