 Few things surpass old wine ; and they may preach Who please, — the more because they preach in vain, — Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.  Adventures of a Younger Son - Page 163by Edward John Trelawny - 1890 - 521 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Wesley Thomas - 1850 - 156 pages
..." When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spiri , the heart's rain ! Few things surpass old wine ; and they may preach Who please — the more, because they preach in (With this quotation I must go no further ; [vain:':kk Or certain people soon would cry out " Murther... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit 1 the heart's rain ! Few things surpass old wine ; and they may preach Who please, — the more because they preach in vainLet us nave wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. CLXXIX. Man,... | |
 | Edward John Trelawny - Greece - 1858 - 332 pages
...neither just nor generous, and never drew his weapon to redress any wrongs but his own. CHAPTER VI. Few things surpass old wine ; and they may preach...and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. DON JUAN. BYBON has been accused of drinking deeply. Our universities, certainly, did turn out more... | |
 | Edward John Trelawny - Greece - 1858 - 314 pages
...neither just nor generous, and never drew his weapon to redress any wrongs but his own. CHAPTER, VI. Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who...and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. DON JUAN. BYRON has been accused of drinking deeply. Our universities, certainly, did turn out more... | |
 | Edward John Trelawny - Greece - 1858 - 328 pages
...neither just nor generous, and never drew his weapon to redress any wrongs but his own. CHAPTER VI. Few things surpass old wine ; and they may preach...please, the more because they preach in vain. Let us hare wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. DON JUAN. BYRON has... | |
 | Eloquence - 1860 - 360 pages
...gush of hope that form the sweetest ingredients in the cup of life. Byron's famous toast — " Give us wine and women— mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after — " will never want for admirers. What poet has not celebrated the pleasures of wine ? But for wine... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 696 pages
...some friend, who holds his wife and riches And that his Argus bites him by — the breeches. — 2 Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after. Man, being reasonable, mustget drunk; The best of 1 fe is but intoxication.... occupé à se détruire.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1865 - 480 pages
...When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit ! the heart's rain ! Few things surpass old wine ; and they may preach...— the more because they preach in vain — Let us ha?e wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. CLXXIX. Man, being reasonable,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...daily to bedew, And give the hesitating wheels of life Gliblier to play. Armstrong, Art of PH n. 490. Few things surpass old wine ; and they may preach...and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after. Byron, DJ n. 178. Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes weariness forget... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 740 pages
...bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit ! the heart's rain ! Few things surpass old wine ; mid , and a show. XIX. I can rcpeople with the past —...And meditation chasten'd down, enough ; And more, CLXXIX. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk ; The best of life is but intoxication : Glory, the grnpe.love,... | |
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