Death's Doings

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Death / Death's Doings
Genre: Books - Miscellaneous
Format: Book - Paperback
Released: Thu 14 Oct 2010
Catalogue Number: 021781610X

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE BACCHANALIANS. Whilst Reason rules the glass, and Friendship flings Its Claude-like tint o'er life's convivial hours, Heart towards heart with generous fervour springs, And Fancy wreaths the social board with flowers. But, when the glass o'er prostrate Reason rules, And all Ebriety's dull vapours rise, Lost in the mist, the wisest, changed to fools, Take thorns for flowers, and whips for social ties. Look now on yon bibbers?how wildly they laugh And exult o'er the poison they fearlessly quaff; Their mirth grows to madness, and loudly they call On the waiter; ? he enters ? Death waits on them They jest at his figure;?'tis meagre and bare, But soon his pale liv'ry the proudest shall wear. That last fatal bottle the mischief shall work; Their last vital breath shall be drawn with that cork: Its odour is fetid?it smells of the dead, 'Tis a type of their fate, for their spirits have fled: The glass of hilarity reels in their hand, But there is another glass?flowing with sand; Its grains are fast falling?they trickle?no more: Those glasses are drained?the carousal is o'er. H. D. ELIXIR VITJE. Wine does wonders every day. From the time when the juice of the grape was first concocted into beverage, to the present day? the day of Charles Wright, of champagne celebrity ?wine has ever been lauded as one of Nature's most valuable gifts to man. It is the true aurum potabile, the genuine elixir vita, invigorating the heart, inspiring the fancy, and recalling to the veins of age the genial glow of youth. Accordingly, many, very many, are the excellent sayings that have been uttered in commendation of this generous liquor; and many, very many, too, are the good things, the bright thoughts, the flashes of wit and eloquen...

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  • Academic Level: General
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