 | 1869 - 420 pages
...ill-used stomach, are a legion countless as the locusts of Libya. Doth not the poet truly say — ' We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live...may live without friends ; we may live without books ; I'ut civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, — what is knowledge but... | |
 | 1870 - 956 pages
...has something nice to eat" And what does a certain poet say on the great subject of gastronomy ? " We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live...love— what is passion but pining? But where is the man who can live without dining?" CHAPTER XIX. TASTE AND CARE IN THE HOUSEHOLD. Care of Furniture. —... | |
 | 1873 - 92 pages
...MANUSCBIPT AUTHORITIES, "And there 'e the extract flasked and fine, and priced, And salable at last.11 "We may live without poetry, music, and art; We may live...cannot live without cooks. — He may live without hooks,— what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,— what is hope but deceiving?... | |
 | George W. Pine - 1873 - 534 pages
...neighbors of the outer and inner world, the newspaper. "We may live without poetry, music or books , We may live without conscience, and live without heart...books, But civilized man cannot live without cooks." We cross the head of the Umatela River Valley, whose head-waters and southern tributaries flow though... | |
 | 1874 - 674 pages
...classmates : CYRUS POTTER, HOWARD DCANE and BEXJAMIX Dow. DELTA '76. r ECCENTRIC. Familiar Quotations. " We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live...friends, we may live without books ; But civilized men can not live without cooks." — EATING CLUBS. "Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit." — VN ATT-.... | |
 | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton - 1875 - 430 pages
...and trouble, remorseless, his best ease, As the Furies once troubled the sleep of Orestes. XIX. We may live without poetry, music, and art; We may live...But where is the man that can live without dining ?J xx. Lord Alfred found, waiting his coming, a note From Lucile. " Your last letter has reached me,"... | |
 | 1886 - 500 pages
...back his head and delivered into the upper air a certain well-known passage from Owen Meredith. We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live...books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. " Bravo ! '' cried Flagler, laughing heartily. Then he announced the results of his excursion. " I've... | |
 | Mary Hooper (writer on cookery.) - 1875 - 120 pages
...song," laughed Edward, " I will reply by a quotation from Lucile very much to the purpose : — ' We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live...without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilised man cannot live without cooks. We may live without books — what is knowledge but grieving?... | |
 | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton - 1876 - 268 pages
...As the Furies once troubled the sleep of Orestes. "We may live without poetry, music, and art ; \Ve may live without conscience, and live without heart...live without hope, — what is hope but deceiving 1 He may live without love, — what is passion but pining 1 But where is the man that can live without... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...live without heart ; We may live without friends, we may live without books, — But civilized men cannot live without cooks. He may live without books...But where is the man that can live without dining ? Owen Meredith. RHYME AND REASON. " GIVE," said Queen Elizabeth to Lord Burleigh, while Spenser knelt,... | |
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We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, — what is knowledge... 
