Drinking. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Drinking


Not to-night—I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment. I have drunk but one cup to-night, and—behold what innovation it makes here: I am unfortunate in the infirmity, and dare not task my weakness with any more. Shakespeare.—Othello, Act II. Scene 3. (Cassio to Iago.)	1
Every inordinate cup is unbless’d, and the ingredient is a devil. Shakespeare.—Othello, Act II. Scene 3. (Cassio.)	2
If we do not drink to his cost, we shall die in his debt. Smart’s Horace.—Book II. Sat. VIII.	3
I drank: I liked it not: ’twas rage, ’twas noise, An airy scene of transitory joys. In vain I trusted that the flowing bowl Would banish sorrow and enlarge the soul. Prior.—Solomon, a Poem, Book II. Line 106.	4
And in the flowers that wreath the sparkling bowl, Fell adders hiss, and poisonous serpents roll. Prior.—Solomon, a Poem, Book II. Line 140.	5
[See a pleasant piece of exaggeration, wherein the drunken person imagines himself on board a vessel, and in danger of shipwreck.—Heywood.—The English Traveller. Lamb’s Dramatic Poets, Page 104.]	6