 Man, being reasonable, must get drunk ; The best of life is but intoxication : Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation ; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful...  The works of ... lord Byron - Страница 212по George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | John William Carleton - 1851 - 726 страници
...; The best of life is but intoxication. Glory — the grape— love— war : in these are sunk Tlic hopes of all men, and of every nation ; Without their sap, how leafless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, K> fruitful on occasion ! Bat to return — Get very... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 290 страници
...has been much overlooked by Bacchanalian poets. I remember none but Byron who has touched on it: " Get very drunk ; and when You wake with headache, you shall see what then." Charles Lamb, indeed, has left a few prose sentences on the matter, redolent with all his quaint and... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 286 страници
...has been much overlooked by Bacchanalian poets. I remember none but Byron who has touched on it : " Get very drunk ; and when You wake with headache, you shall see what then." Charles Lamb, indeed, has left a few prose sentences on the matter, redolent with all his quaint and... | |
 | Édouard de Warren - 1845 - 624 страници
...siience, bien qu'elle doive nous cul rainer à quelques explications en dehors de notre récit. Man being reasonable must get drunk The best of life is but intoxication. « L'homme étant un être raisonnable doit s'enivrer, car la meilleur? coupe de la vie est celle de... | |
 | 1847 - 540 страници
...But, while he shuns the grosser joys of sense, His mind seems nourish'd by that abstinence. 15. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk : The best of life...are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation. BYRON'S Don Juan. 16. He spent his days in riot most uncouth, And vex'd with mirth the drowsy «ar... | |
 | 1847 - 526 страници
...But, while he shuns the grosser joys of sense, His mind seems nourish'd by that abstinence. 15. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk : The best of life...are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation. BYRON'S Don Juan. 16. He spent his days in riot most uncouth, And vex'd with mirth the drowsy ear of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 страници
...I*et us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. CLXX1Z. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk ; The best of life...return, — Get very drunk ; and when You wake with hcadach, you shall see what then. K 5 Ring for your valet — bid him quickly bring Some hock and soda-water,... | |
 | 1852 - 400 страници
...authority on the subject, for he wrote Don Juan under the influence of gin-and-water,) says — " Man, being reasonable, must get drunk ; The best of life is but intoxication." And now listen to the philosophic soliloquy of our Cig friend Hardscrabble Bangs, Esquire, who having... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 страници
...Farewell to England. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk ; The best of life is but intoxieation : Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation. Byron 'T is pity wine should be so deleterious, For tea and eoffee leave us mueh more serious. Byron.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 страници
...day after. CLXXIX. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; 179 The beat oi life is but intoxication i Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The...trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion i But to return,— -Get very drunk ; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then. CLXXX.... | |
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