 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 - Page 212by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1819 - 244 pages
...vain,Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. CLXX1X. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk ; The best of life...wake with head-ache, you shall see what then. CLXXX, Ring for your valet — bid him quickly bring Some hock and soda-water, then you'll know A pleasure... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1819 - 240 pages
...Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. CLXXIX. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life...life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return,—Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then. CLXXX. Ring for... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 486 pages
...Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. CLXXIX. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk, The best of life...every nation ; Without their sap, how branchless were tie trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion : But to return, — Get very drunk; and... | |
 | 1822 - 590 pages
...traveller. We now append, for the benefit of all whom it may concern, the Hock and Soda Water Receipt. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk ; The best of life...drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see wliat then. Ring for your valet — bid him quickly bring Some hock and soda-water, then you'll know... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 514 pages
...suffice. " Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk ; The best of life...are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation;" [Don Juan, Canto II. CLXXVIII.— CLXXIX.] The principles inculcated throughout the poem, with re.epect... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 pages
...Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. CLXXIX. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk, The best of life...: But to return — Get very drunk ; and when You woke with head-ache, you shall see what then CLXXX. Ring for your valet — bid him quickly brine Some... | |
 | William Frederick Deacon - 1823 - 494 pages
...driven to despair by the unexampled indigence of his family. ON THE an* moral OF BEING DRUNK. " Man being reasonable, must get drunk, The best of life is but intoxication." DON JUAN. THE duty of getting drunk, from its relative connexion with the best interests of society,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 322 pages
...and soda-water the day after. CLXXIX. Man heing- reasonahle, must get drunk; The hest of life is hut intoxication; Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these...all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how hranchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion; But to return,—Get very... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pages
...young believed it, whatever the old might. ON THE RELIGIOUS AND MORAL PROPRIETY OF BEING DRUNK. 11 Man being reasonable, must get drunk . The best of life is but intoxication." DON JUAN. THE duty of getting drunk, from its relative connexion with the best interests of society,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...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...nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk CLXXX. Ring for your valet—bid him quickly bring Some hock and soda-water, then you 'll know A pleasure... | |
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