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Joint-stools were then created; on three legs Upborne they stood. Three legs upholding firm A massy slab, in fashion square or round. On such a stool immortal Alfred sat.— COWPER — The Sofa. Bk. I. L. 19.
Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And Luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.— COWPER — The Task. Bk. I. L. 86.
A three-legg'd table, O ye fates! C.— HORACE
When on my three-foot stool I sit.— Shakespeare — Cymbeline. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 89.
Carpentry. Are the tools without, which the carpenter puts forth his hands to, or are they and all the carpentry within himself; and would he not smile at the notion that chest or house is more than he?— CYRUS A. BARTOL — The Rising Faith.
Personality. In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the Gods see everywhere.— LONGFELLOW — The Builders. St. 5.
Sure if they cannot cut, it may be said His saws are toothless, and his hatchets lead.— POPE — Epilogue to Satires. Dialogue II. L. 151.
He talks of wood: it is some carpenter.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 90.
Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What dost thou with thy best apparel on? Julius Cæsar. Act. I. Sc. 1. L. 5. The carpenter dresses his plank-the tongue of his fore-plane whistles its wild ascending lisp.— WALT WHITMAN — Leaves of Grass. Walt Whitman. Pt. XV. St. 77.
The house-builder at work in cities or anywhere, The preparatory jointing, squaring, sawing, mortising, The hoist-up of beams, the push of them in their places, laying them regular, Setting the studs by their tenons in the mortises, according as they were prepared, The blows of the mallets and hammers.— WALT WHITMAN — Song of the Broad-Axe. Pt. III. St. 4.
OCCUPATIONS-CULINARY. 431 Culinary. Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit the Reflection of the old proverb, that though God sends us meat, yet the D- does cooks. The Cooks' and Confectioners' Dictionary, or the Accomplished Housewife's Companions. London. 1724. Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. I. Sec. II. Memb. 2. Subsec. II.
And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus, Things which in hungry mortals' eyes find favour.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto V. St. 47.
Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto V. St. 50.
Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.— DRYDEN — Fourth Satire of Persius. L. 58.
Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.— DAVID GARRICK — Epigram on
Goldsmith's Retaliation. Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.— MATHEW HENRY — Commentaries.
Psalm CIV. Verse 15. Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. S.— MILTON — L'Allegro. L. 85.
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.— POPE — Satires. Horace. Epistle II. Bk. II. L. 85.
He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding: but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting: but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening: but here's yet in the word "hereafter" the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven and the baking: nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.— Shakespeare — Troilus and Cressida. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 15.