One night, under cover of darkness, and further concealed in a most cunning disguisement, a desperate burglar slid into his happy ...home, and robbed them all of everything. And darker yet to tell, the blacksmith himself did ignorantly conduct this burglar into his family's heart. It was the Bottle Conjurer! Upon the opening of that fatal cork, forth flew the fiend, and shrivelled up his home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Truly, a peck of provender, I could munch your good dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet h...ay hath no fellow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Galway is a blackguard place, To Cork I give my curse,... Tralee is bad enough, But Limerick is worse. Which is worst I cannot tell, They're everyone so filthy, But of the towns which I have seen Worst luck to Clonakilty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin; out of any businessman's life there is the mirage of P...aris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now who could take you off to tiny life In one room or in two rooms or in three... And cork you smartly, like the flask of wine You are? Not any woman. Not a wife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If ever I should condescend to prose, I'll write poetical commandments, which... Shall supersede beyond all doubt all those That went before; in these I shall enrich My text with many things that no one knows, And carry precept to the highest pitch: I'll call the work 'Longinus o'er a Bottle, Or, Every Poet his own Aristotle.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we ho...pe to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »