 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 442 Seiten
...From the coffee-house he went again to a tavern, where he often sat late, and drank too much wine. lu 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... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1867 - 732 Seiten
...Dialogue between two or three merry Coolers, with divers Songs full of Mirth and Newes. 1641. 12mo. 3. Newes out of Islington : or, a Dialogue very merry...betwixt a knavish Projector, and honest Clod, the Ploug-man. With certaine Songs of the late fall of the new Beare-garden ; and for the fall of Projectors.... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 Seiten
...fault of Joe's. * Especially that have the grace Of self-denying, gifted face. Hudibras. DRUNKENNESS. IN the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. DR. JOHNSON. A VINE bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third... | |
 | Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 Seiten
...Wit and Mirth, 1635. Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. Shakespeare. In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice...courage, and bashfulness for confidence. Johnson. Spurzheim was once lecturing on phrenology. " What is conceived to be the organ of drunkenness ?" said... | |
 | Joe Miller - 1873 - 220 Seiten
...opinion of drinking may be gathered from a brief but expressively antithetical passage; he says, — "In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence." 188. VALUE OP AN OPINION. "Why do you not pay me that six and eight pence, Mr. Mulrooney?"said an attorney... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 Seiten
...they can, without the soft anxiety of suspicion or the enlivening agitation of surprise. D^IJVKIJTQ. IN the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. Before dinner, men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 Seiten
...lonely night. The soul withdraws into itself. Then stars arise, and the night is lonely.— Longfellow. In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice...courage, and bashfulness for confidence. — Johnson. No man can possibly improve in company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree... | |
 | Charles Tovey - 1878 - 356 Seiten
...can get a word of truth out of him." The Doctor has likewise an observation akin to those of Addison: "In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence." A more recent writer observes " that wine is such a whetstone for wit, that if it be often set thereon,... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 Seiten
...displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity. Addison, Spectator, No. 569. WINE. IN the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence ; but who that ever asked succour from Bacchus, was able to preserve himself from being enslaved by... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 376 Seiten
...slight soever ; get at the general principles of dress and of behaviour. — Piozzi's Anecdotes, p. 290. In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. — Lives of the Poets. Addison. A man may choose whether he will have Drinking . . 11,, .* abstemiousness... | |
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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. 
