 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
 | 1896 - 1224 страници
...we fear nae evil ; Wi' usquelme, we'll face the devil ! n. BURNS — Tnm o' Shunter. L. lift. Man, LTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. IX. L. 205. Each tree...MILTON— Paradise Lost. Bk. VIII. L. 306. Here Ceres' gif life'sstrange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return, — Get very drunk ; and when You wake... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 страници
...knows his life will shortly cease, Yet madly lives as if he knew it not." R. BAXTER. Hypocrisy. " Man, being reasonable, must get drunk ; The best of life is but intoxication." BYRON. Don Juan, Can. II.., St. 179. " Man creates the evil he endures." SOUTHEY. Inscriptions, II.... | |
 | 1899 - 432 страници
...are concerned, when he declared in his daring, if perhaps too theatrically defiant fashion — ' Man, being reasonable, must get drunk, The best of life is but intoxication." It is quite possible that in Byron's day, owing to the want of facilities for 'getting drunk' in a... | |
 | Stanley Lane-Poole - 1899 - 254 страници
...party,' or, as above, 'a wonderfully amusing and guileless party.' Evidently he agreed that — Man, being reasonable, must get drunk ; The best of life is but intoxication. When he had fever, indeed, he was forced to abstain, but even then nothing would satisfy him but his... | |
 | George John Whyte-Melville - 1900 - 378 страници
...reasonable, must get drunk ; The best o{ life is but intoxication. Glory — the grape — love — war : in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation ; Without their sap, how leafless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion I But to return — Get very... | |
 | William G. Hutchison - 1904 - 352 страници
...perfectly happy in the hour that is present unless he be drunk, and with Byron would claim — " Man being reasonable, must get drunk ; The best of life is but intoxication." Let me add a postscript to this foreword, and as a postscript is a feminine thing, it shall deal with... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 страници
...— Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. CLXXIX Man, native sky, In the wild pomp of mountain majesty ! na796 797 Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion:... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1110 страници
...mirth andl laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. CLXXIX Man, being reasonable, must {ret H e e e e e e e d f c cUc a li andl r- ' Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 страници
...— Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. CLXXIX Man, 0 ape sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their gap, how branchless were the trunk... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 страници
...— us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water .the day .\::- -. CLXXIX Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; \ The best of life is but intoxication: vGlory, the grape, love, gold, in these an \ sunk The hopes of all men, and of every action; Without... | |
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