I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted m...yriads of people. They go commonly together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their d...escent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The night discharged of all care Where wine may bear no sovereignty;... The chaste wife wise, without debate; Such sleeps as may beguile the night; Contented with thine own estate; Neither wish death, nor fear his might.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attick tast, with Wine, whence we may rise... To hear the Lute well toucht, or artfull voice Warble immortal Notes and Tuskan Ayre? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The command of comparisons that develops with age is, while no doubt good for the mind, somewhat numbing for the emotions. It is a... wonderful thing to be able to look at an Italian cathedral and recognize the classical influences upon its Gothic, but it is still more wonderful to look at it altogether unaware, altogether open to its fascination. Literature is more thrilling before critical relativity arises; the worst of wine, in the early years of one's life, is better than the best toward the end; and as to your first love, earnestly though you may deny it to later partners and even to yourself, nothing will ever match its ecstasy, laced as it is likely to have been with reckless innocence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'He hardly drinks a pint of wine, And that, I doubt, is no good sign.... His stomach too begins to fail: Last year we thought him strong and hale, But now, he's quite another thing; I wish he may hold out till spring.'
Then hug themselves, and reason thus; \'It is not yet so bad with us.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The time must come when this coast will be a place of resort for those New-Englanders who really wish to visit the seaside. At pre...sent it is wholly unknown to the fashionable world, and probably it will never be agreeable to them. If it is merely a ten-pin alley, or a circular railway, or an ocean of mint-julep, that the visitor is in search of,--if he thinks more of the wine than the brine, as I suspect some do at Newport,--I trust that for a long time he will be disappointed here. But this shore will never more be more attractive than it is now. Such beaches as are fashionable are here made and unmade in a day, I may almost say, by the sea shifting its sands. Lynn and Nantasket! this bare and bended arm it is that makes the bay in which they lie so snugly. What are springs and waterfalls? Here is the spring of springs, the waterfall of waterfalls. A storm in the fall or winter is the time to visit it; a lighthouse or fisherman's hut, the true hotel. A man may stand there and put all America behind him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning ...with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The female sex have long been the acknowledged possessors of a sort of mental quickness and intellectual acumen, or rather sharpne...ss of vision, which may be better understood by the term sprightliness of imagination, which has enabled them to discern, or at least to recognize those smaller springs of action that regulate the conduct of mankind, which, from their supposed insignificancy, have escaped the grosser sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »