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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. "
"Leaves from English Literature," - Page 87
by Mrs. Kate Lee Shaw Nichols - 1913 - 112 pages
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Notes and Queries

1883 - 674 pages
...H. PKET. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (6m S. viii. " We may live without poetry, music, and art, Vie may live without conscience, and live without heart,...books, But civilized man cannot live without cooks." Lucile, by Owen Meredith, pt. i. canto, i'i. st. 24. It will be noticed that Lord Wolseley does not...
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Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture

Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1899 - 892 pages
...take great pleasure in introducing to you. FUEL VALUES OF FOODS. BY DR. GEORGIA MERRIMAN, Bucyrus, O. "We may live without poetry, music and art, We may...books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. We may live without books. — What is knowledge but grieving? We may live without hope, — What is...
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The poetical works of Owen Meredith, Volume 2

Edward Robert Bulwer- Lytton (1st earl of.) - 1867 - 354 pages
...pain ; 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...may live without friends; we may live without books ; T?ut civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, — what is knowledge but...
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Lucile

Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton - 1868 - 328 pages
...pain; 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...man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books,—what is knowledge but grieving ? He may live without hope,—what is hope but deceiving ?...
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Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 16

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...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...
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Beyond the Mississippi: From the Great River to the Great Ocean : Life and ...

Albert Deane Richardson - 1869 - 664 pages
...to dining as dining to existence ? 'We may live without poetry, music, and art; We may live withont conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without...without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooka He may live withont books— what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope — what...
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Choice Receipts: Selected from the Best Manuscript Authorities

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...cannot live without cooks. — He may live without hooks,— what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,— what is hope but deceiving?...
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Beyond the West: Containing an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Other ...

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...
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Eccentric ...

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...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-....
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Wide Awake, Volume 23

1886 - 500 pages
...threw 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...books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. " Bravo ! '' cried Flagler, laughing heartily. Then he announced the results of his excursion. " I've...
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