The Wine-drinker's Manual ...Marsh and Miller, 1830 - 296 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 17 - I have trodden the wine-press alone, and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
الصفحة 130 - The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields • With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
الصفحة 245 - T' adulterate generous wine with noxious juice. R. WYNNE. Sheer-lane, February 8. THERE is in this city a certain fraternity of chemical operators, who work underground in holes, caverns and dark retirements, to conceal their mysteries from the eyes and observation of mankind. These subterraneous philosophers are daily employed in the transmutation of liquors, and, by the power of magical drugs and incantations, raising under the streets of London the choicest products of the hills and valleys of...
الصفحة 272 - Tis pity Wine, which Nature meant To man in kindness to present, And gave him kindly, to caress And cherish his frail happiness ; Of equal virtue to renew His wearied mind and body too ; Should (like the cyder-tree in Eden, Which only grew to be forbidden) No sooner come to be enjoy'd, But th...
الصفحة 130 - Sweet is the vintage when the showering grapes In Bacchanal profusion reel to earth, Purple and gushing; sweet are our escapes From civic revelry to rural mirth...
الصفحة 7 - Some charitable dole is wanting to these, our often very unhappy brethren, to fill the gloomy void that reigns in minds which have nothing on earth to' hope or fear ; something to relieve in the killing languor and over-laboured lassitude of those who have nothing to do...
الصفحة 245 - The ripening grape shall hang on every thorn," — seems to have hinted at this art, which can turn a plantation of northern hedges into a vineyard. These adepts are known among one another by the name of Wine-brewers ; and, I am afraid, do great injury, not only...
الصفحة 289 - Dissolve eight pounds of honey in fifteen gallons of boiling water ; to which, when clarified, add the juice of eight pounds of red or white currants. Then ferment twentyfour hours, and to every two gallons of water add two pounds of sugar.
الصفحة 228 - Lord caused to sit still and keep their roomes, and being in his apparell as he rode, called for a chayre, and sat down in the middest of the high paradise, laughing, and being as merry as ever I saw hym in all my lyff.
الصفحة 274 - Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogethery, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling ; and, to crown all, Kinnaird and I had to conduct Sheridan down...