212 EATING EATING
Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. X. L. 622
| note = Pope's trans.
"Good well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,—
It almost makes me wish, I vow,
To have two stomachs, like a cow!"
And lo! as with the cud, an inward thrill
Upheaved his waistcoat and disturb'd his frill,
His mouth was oozing, and he work'd his jaw—
"I almost think that I could eat one raw."
Hood—The Turtks.
Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum,
Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus.
Though your threshing-floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that
reason will your stomach hold more than mine.
Horace—Satires. I. 1. 45.
Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.
A stomach that is seldom empty despises
common food.
Horace—Satires. II. 2. 38.
The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not
in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you
seek for sauce by sweating?
Horace—Satires. II. 2.
Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal
within the compass of a guinea.
Washington Irving—The Stout Gentleman.
The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread,
and the whole stay of water.
Isaiah. III. 1.
Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we shall
die.
Isaiah. XXII. 13.
A feast of fat things.
Isaiah. XXV. 6.
Think of the man who first tried German sausage.
Jerome K. Jerome—Three Men in a Boat.
Ch.XIV.
Gather up the fragments that remain, that
nothing be lost.
John. VI. 12.
For I look upon it, that he who does not mind
his belly will hardly mind anything else.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Boswell's Life of Johnson.
Vol.111. Ch. 9.
For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he dors of his dinner.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Piozzi'x Anecdotes of Johnson.
Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.
Ben Jonson—Epigram CI.
Yet shall you have to rectify your palate,
An olive, capers, or some better salad
Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen,
If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,
Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney
Is not to be despaired of for our money;
And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are
clerks,
The sky not falling, think we may have larks.
Ben Jonson—Epigram CI.
The master of art or giver of wit,
Their belly.
Ben Jonson—The Poetaster.
She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
Judges. V. 25.
In solo vivendi causa palato est.
In their palate alone is their reason of
existence.
Juvenal—Satires. n. 11.
Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.
To eat at another's table is your ambition's
height.
Juvenal—Satires. V. 2.
And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.
Keats—The Eve of St. Agnes. St. 30.
An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little
oil in a cruse.
/ Kings. XVII. 12.
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did
the cruse of oil fail.
J Kings. XVII. 16.
A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full
inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head
through the window and said: "I am quite full
inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gillman's
did the business for me."
Lamb—Autobiographical Recollections, byCHAS.
R. Leslie.
He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful
stomach of the judicious epicure—and for such
a tomb might be content to die.
T.amb—Dissertation upon Roast Pig.
If you wish to grow thinner, Himinigti your
dinner,
And take to light claret instead of pale ale;
Look down with an utter contempt upon butter.
And never touch bread till its toasted—or
stale.
Henry S. Leigh—A Day for Wishing.
Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very
little meat, and a great deal of tablecloth.
| author = Longfellow
| work = Spanish Student. Act I. Sc. 4.
' I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth
in his head.
Lylt—Euphues and his England. P. 308.
Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
Macadlay—Political Georgics.
Philo swears that he has never dined at home,
and it is so; he does not dine at all, except when
invited out.
Martial—Epigrams. Bk. V. Ep. 47.
