 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...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. CLXXIX. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk, The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 542 pages
...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. CLXXIX. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk ; The best of life is but intoxication : Glory, the grape,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...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. CLXXIX. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication : •. Glory, the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 pages
...old wine ; and they may preach Who please, — the more because they preach in vain, — 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 is but intoxication : Glory, the grape,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...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, being reasonable, must get drunk; 179 The beat oi life is but intoxication i Glory, the... | |
 | Edward John Trelawny - Greece - 1858 - 332 pages
...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. DON JUAN. BYBON has been accused of drinking deeply. Our universities, certainly, did turn out more... | |
 | Eloquence - 1860 - 360 pages
...praise of wine — and one which I know this party will appreciate — is, that it has irnmemorially been associated with the beauty of women. " Woman...much of the sweetest poetry of the world were unsung. Tho sweet songs of Anacreon, of Harfez, of Burns, of Moore, and a glorious list of bards too numerous... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 696 pages
...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.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...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. 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
...old wine ; mid they may preach Who please,— the more because they preach in vain,— Let us have `E ' h6 v$?O M mw % $ 8 ǔmusX ] e ؘ 6e #G 2bs CLXXIX. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk ; The best of life is but intoxication : Glory, the grnpe.love,... | |
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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. 
