| Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 482 pages
...he ventures to employ any of these disturbing agents. The present man is at no loss for a motive. " If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink: Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry, Or least I should be by and by, Or any other reason why." Coffee, in excess, produces heat,... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 458 pages
...Many are the epigrams upon drinking customs. Here is one of the best from the English poet Aldrich : If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink; Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry, Or lest I should be by and by, Or any other reason why. Prior has left us this little story... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 460 pages
...Many are the epigrams upon drinking customs. Here is one of the best from the English poet Aldrich : If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink; Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry, Or lest I should be by and by, Or any other reason why. Prior has left us this little story... | |
| Yale University. Sheffield Scientific School. Class of 1891 - 1891 - 180 pages
...father is a manufacturer ; brother in '92 S.; is a chemist. GEORGE WYLLIE MERCER. " If on my tlierne I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink,...wine, a friend, because I'm dry, Or lest I should be by-and-by, Or any other reason why." Born in Omaha, Neb.; will spend his future in working off college... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 452 pages
...he ventures to employ any of these disturbing agents. The present man is at no loss for a motive. " If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink: Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry, Or least I should be by and by, Or any other reason why." Coffee, in excess, produces heat,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - Authors, American - 1891 - 454 pages
...he ventures to employ any of these disturbing agents. The present man is at no loss for a motive. " If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink: Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry, Or least I should be by and by, Or any other reason why." Coffee, in excess, produces heat,... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1891 - 1190 pages
...page 013. BARTHOLOMEW SCHIDONI. 1500-1010. I, too, was horn in Arcadia.1 JOHN SIEMOND. 1589 (?) -1049. If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink, — Good wine, a friend, hecanse I 'm dry, Or lest I shonld he hy and hy, Or any other reason why.2 Canm Bihendi. FRIEDRICH... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - American literature - 1892 - 486 pages
...he ventures to employ any of these disturbing agents. The present man is at no loss for a motive. " If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink: Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry, Or least I should be by and by, Or any other reason why." Coffee, in excess, produces heat,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 458 pages
...he ventures to employ any of these disturbing agents. The present man is at no loss for a motive. " If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink: Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry, Or least I should be by and by, Or any other reason why." Coffee, in excess, produces heat,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 478 pages
...he ventures to employ any of these disturbing agents. The present man is at no loss for a motive. " If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink: Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry, Or least I should be by and by, Or any other reason why." Coffee, in excess, produces heat,... | |
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