[F]rom cadmium, gravel, crab-stones [translating Krebsaugen], emery and talc I prepared a powder for whitening teeth, and from lye, copper, sal ammoniac and camphor a blue tincture for scurvy, stomatitis, toothache and sore eyes.

There were vegetable pies and nutburgers, spinach lasagne and stuffed mushrooms simmering over candlelit hot plates.

[…] now does he feel his title / Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe / Upon a dwarfish thief.

This latter class at the time possessed the delicacy of the Hamburg fish-mongress of to-day.