Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This practice has been unusally prevalent this year. A few days ago John was practically forced to drink until intoxicated. It caused him much inconvenience, expense and unhappiness...
Liquor is John's enemy. He wants to let it alone, and it is unpardonable for a person to offer him the chance to drink, to say nothing of urging it upon him. Shame on the student who would countenance such...
...Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes...
...forty-five he made his immortal journey to Scotland What took him there no one can tell. After returning to London he was made Poet Lauriet, the first as we know it. Despite his income the wolf came to his door, and his life became one round of drink, debt, and medicancy, except when he shut himself up at his work...
...tempter? To some just starting out in life it is the voice of pleasure, of self, of indulgence; to others the voice of liberty and independence, and to others still the voice of success. To the first the tempter says now is the time, pleasure like champagne, drink it quick when you can best appreciate it; to the second, why be trammelled by laws and obedience, do as you please; to the third nothing succeeds like success. The only kings are the rail-road-kings, the only barons the coal-barons, the only lords the landlords. Don't be benevolent...