Thirty Years Ago: Or, The Memoirs of a Water Drinker, Svazek 1Bancroft & Holley, 1836 |
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Strana 89 - I told you, sir, they were red hot with drinking; So full of valour that they smote the air For breathing in their faces." " This drinking and quaffing will be the ruin of you." " He will lie, sir, with such volubility that you would think truth were a fool : drunkenness is his best
Strana 17 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, \ While proudly riding o'er the azure realm, In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm : Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway. That hushed in
Strana 119 - CHAPTER XVII. The result of intemperance, and a sick chamber. " Show not thy valiantness in wine, for wine hath destroyed many.—ECclesiasticus. " Is man no more than this ?" "They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that slave with
Strana 119 - I would rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me sad." " Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. " Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; And study help for that which
Strana 59 - Let us sit and mock the good housewife, Fortune, from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally." "Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of nature." " I never did repent of doing good, nor shall not now.
Strana 170 - Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog; Duck with French nods, and apish courtesy." " Methought a serpent eat my heart away." "Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad." "One man holdeth troth, a million false." " Which is the villain 7 Let me see his eyes; That when I note another man like him, I may avoid him.
Strana 107 - There's rue for you, and here's some for me." " As the morning steals upon the night Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clear reason.
Strana 127 - You have often begun to tell me what I am, butstop'd, And left me to a bootless inquisition." ' "Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief."
Strana 134 - be checked in the downward course, and brought to real repentance ; which is amendment. CHAPTER XIX. A dinner party in 1811. "Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudence, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy." " Some sports are painful; but their labour, Delight in them sets off." " The rich wine first must rise in
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