- publication date
- 1840-00-00
- first line
- Keats fell by a criticism. Who was it died of “The Andromache”? Ignoble souls!—De L'Omelette perished of an ortolan. L’histoire en est breve. Assist me, Spirit of Apicius!
- last line
- Had Alexander not been Alexander, he would have been Diogenes; and the Duc assured his antagonist in taking leave, “que s’il n’eut ete De L’Omelette il n’aurait point d’objection d’etre le Diable.”