Specimen of a Bibliography of Old Books and Pamphlets: Illustrative of the Mug, Glass, Bottle, the Loving Cup, and the Social Pipe |
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amongst ancient Anecdotes BACCHANALIA Bacchus Ballad barley barley wine Bartholomew Fair beer beverage BLACK LETTER bottles Brewing Britain bunches of grapes called casks century Coffee Coffee-House Collection COUNTERBLASTE TO TOBACCO curious custom delight Discourse DISTILLER DISTILLER OF LONDON drank drink drunk Drunkard Drunkenness Egypt Egyptians English entertainments Excise feasts fermentation folio folio broadside Foole French French wine frontispiece fruit gallon George Daniel's Gin Lane glass grapes Health Herbal Herbert Herbes Herodotus History Holinshed Honour House Humours intoxicating liquors invention Irish John juice kind King lived Lond Lord malt Melancholy merry mirth Mizraim modern Noah Odin Old Age OLD BOOKSELLER old wine Osiris person Peter Hausted physician pipe planted plates Plutarch Poem poet poison portrait Printed produced Romans sack says shillings sold Songs spirit of wine taste Taverns Temperance THOMAS thou Tobacco translated Treatise Vertue vine vineyards Vintners woodcut
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Page 43 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Page 48 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Page 48 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 29 - In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice, for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. It is not unlikely that Addison was first seduced to excess by the manumission which he obtained from the servile timidity of his sober hours.
Page 35 - Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee ; but before Mayst rule it, as thou list : and pour the shame, Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor. It is most just to throw that on the ground, Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.
Page 55 - Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent Tobacco, which goes far beyond all their panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used, but, as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as Tinkers do Ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, land, health, hellish, devilish, and damned Tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
Page 65 - To store her children with: if all the world Should in a pet of temperance feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, The All-giver would be unthanked...
Page 8 - WITH that low cunning, which in fools supplies, And amply too, the place of being wise, Which Nature, kind, indulgent parent ! gave To qualify the blockhead for a knave...
Page 13 - London from all other cities ; that the coffee-house was the Londoner's home, and that those who wished to find a gentleman commonly asked, not whether he lived in Fleet Street or Chancery Lane, but whether he frequented the Grecian or the Rainbow.