In the Olla Podrida, a collection of Essays published at Oxford, there is an admirable paper upon the character of Johnson, written by the Reverend Dr. Home, the last excellent Bishop of Norwich.

The Olla Podrida was published in weekly numbers in 1787 8.

It is a mass of earnest "abysmal nonsense," an olla-podrida of theological whimsicalities, a saintly jumble of pious staff made upif we may borrow an ideaof Hebraism, Persian Dualism, Brahminism, Buddhistic apotheosis, heterodox and orthodox Christianity, Mohammedanism, Drusism, Freemasonry, Methodism, Swedenborgianism, Mesmerism, and Spirit- rapping.

Your grandfather's Spanish, your grandmother's French, and your father's English, all mixed up in an olla podrida.

We have nobody to talk olla podrida to now.

She missed what she called the olla-podrida phrases to which she had always been accustomed; and in her desire to behave with propriety, there was an unwonted sense of constraint.

We always had so many flowery names mixed up with our olla-podrida talk.

WELLS COLLEGE Cardinal, The. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Wesleyan Argus, The. Wesleyan Literary Monthly, The. Olla Podrida, The. Wesleyan Verse, 16mo, 1894.

Olla Podrida.

Shakspeare, in his "Midsummer-Night's Dream," has mingled the mythologies of Hellas and Scandinavia, of the North and the South, making of them a sort of mythic olla podrida.

Guzman's wife, and I suppose the wives of our other carriers, spent the morning grinding chuño (frozen potatoes) with a rocking stone pestle on a flat stone mortar, and parching or toasting large quantities of sweet corn in a terra-cotta olla.

First, a vermicelli pilaff, which I found palatable, then the national olla, a dish of enormous yellow peas, sprinkled with bits of bacon and flavored with oil; then three successive courses of chicken, boiled, stewed and roasted, but in every case done to rags, and without a particle of the original flavor.

To his supervision, the olla is often indebted for an additional flavor, and no "thorough-bred" gentleman could behave at table with more ease and propriety.

It was kept by a fat landlady, who made us an olla of kid and garlic, which, with some coarse bread and the red Malaga wine, soon took off the sharp edge of our mountain appetites.

José and I sat down in great tribulation to our accustomed olla, but neither of us could do justice to it, and the greater part gladdened the landlord's two boysbeautiful little imps, with faces like Murillo's cherubs.

"The prophecy that I have just learned at school says that there is a bibingca hidden in the olla."

Such alternations made our voyage a charming olla.

Olla Podrida.

I was very sorry time did not admit of my witnessing one of the new president's levees, as I much wished to see the olla podrida of attendants.

The haggis, a kind of pudding, made of the offals or interior of a sheep, and boiled in the integument of its stomach; this dish, both in odour and flavour, is usually excessively offensive to the stranger; the singed sheep's head, water-souchie, Scotch soup, (an olla podrida of meats and vegetables,) chicken-broth and sowens.

The voracious shark (cabeza de olla), the persecuting wolf of the Mediterranean herds, was not here either.

Olla Podrida, iv. 426, n. 3. OMAI, iii. 8. OMBERSLEY, v. 455.

299; mentioned, ii. 438; Methodists, rise of the, i. 58, n. 3, 68, n. 1; expulsion of six, ii. 187; Murray, William (Earl of Mansfield), matriculates, ii. 194, n. 3; New Inn Hall, Boswell and Johnson visit it, ii. 46; Johnson walks in the Principal's garden, ii. 268, n. 2; Olla Podrida, iv.

The *puchero* is known also as the *cocido* and was formerly called *olla* or, when especially rich, *olla podrida*); pl. pout, snivel; *hacer s* snivel *pueblo* m. people *puerta* door; * falsa* back door; * principal* front door; main entrance *puerto* m. harbor *pues* why; well; then; since; (used alone in answer to a question)

The *puchero* is known also as the *cocido* and was formerly called *olla* or, when especially rich, *olla podrida*); pl. pout, snivel; *hacer s* snivel *pueblo* m. people *puerta* door; * falsa* back door; * principal* front door; main entrance *puerto* m. harbor *pues* why; well; then; since; (used alone in answer to a question)