Chapter DRINKING to DUST of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

DRINKING to DUST

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.)

Every inordinate cup is unbless’d, and the ingredient is a devil.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act II. Scene 3. (Cassio.)

If we do not drink to his cost, we shall die in his debt.

Smart’s Horace.—Book II. Sat. VIII.

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.

And in the flowers that wreath the sparkling bowl,
Fell adders hiss, and poisonous serpents roll.

Prior.—Ibid. Line 140.

[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.

DROP.—A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

Proverbs. Chap. XXVII. Verse 15.

From the frequent drop, ever falling, even the stone is bored into a hollow.

Banks’ Bion.—Idyl XI. Page 176.

Much rain wears the marble.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part III. Act III. Scene 2. (Gloster.)

DROWSY.—When love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.

Shakespeare.—Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act IV. Scene 3. (Birom.)

DRUNK.—We faren as he that drunk is as a mouse;
A drunken man wot well he hath a house,
But he ne wot which is the right way thider,
And to a drunken man the way is slider.

Chaucer.—By Saunders, Vol. I. Page 24.

Get very drunk; and when
You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

Byron.—Don Juan, Canto II.