 | Thomas Benfield Harbottle - Quotations - 1906 - 720 pages
...quaelibet altéra causa." PÈBE SIRMOND. (Ménage, Menagiana, éd. Amsterdam, 1693, p. 139.) " If on ray theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why...wine, a friend, because I'm dry, Or lest I should be by-and-by, Or any other reason why." — (Henry Aldrich.) " Si bene quid facias, facias cito ; nam... | |
 | Wesley Historical Society - Methodism - 1906 - 420 pages
...Quotations, p. 139, supplies the well-known epigram, which is by Dean Henry Aldrich (1647 — 1710) : " If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons...men drink : Good wine, a friend, because I'm dry, Or least [lest] I should be by-and-by, Or any other reason why." The foot-note adds : " These lines are... | |
 | University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) - College yearbooks - 1910 - 494 pages
...her twice. And walked away. The wall was not sunny. The flower had no honey. The girl had no money. If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons...; Good wine, a friend, because I'm dry, Or lest I may be by and by. Or any other reason why. Here's to the love that lies in a woman's eyes, — and... | |
 | Joseph Collins - 1910 - 90 pages
...to Tell Thee All I Feel 41 V— For a Man By Nothing Is so Well Bewrayed as By His Manners 55 VI— If on My Theme I Rightly Think, There Are Five Reasons Why Men Drink. ... 70 /I/I BY THE GLARE OF FALSE SCIENCE BETRAYED THAT LEADS TO BEWILDER, AND DAZZLES TO BLIND. DEAR... | |
 | Joseph Collins - Nervous system - 1911 - 338 pages
...moral, mental, and physical regeneration will have been taken. Ce n'est que le premier pas qui cotite. , IF ON MY THEME I RIGHTLY THINK, THERE ARE FIVE REASONS WHY MEN DRINK PITTSBURG, June 16, 1908. DEAR DOCTOR : — " Seek and ye shall find" — when I awoke this morning... | |
 | American literature - 1914 - 72 pages
...82 is sent free to any address for the asking. Write today. Addreu Dept. W-6 An old jingle says that there are five reasons why men drink : Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry, At least, I should be, by and by ; Or any other reason why. We realize, nowadays, that indiscriminate... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 pages
...pnge640. , BARTHOLOMEW SCHIDONI. 1560-1616. I, too, was born in Arcadia.1 JOHN SIRMOND. 1589 (?) -1649. Jf on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink, — Good wine, a friend, because I 'in dry, Or lest I should be by and by, Or any other reason why.2 Cnusa Bibendi. FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU.... | |
 | 1919 - 268 pages
...nature, fixes its ultimate aim in gratifying the stomach." ATHEN.EUS, The Deipnosophists, Bk. VIII "// 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 bye and bye, Or any other reason why." Pere Simond (Amsterdam 1693) by... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 518 pages
...chose to call himself) Griffith was one day walking round 1 The old, freer translation is well known: If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons...friend, because I'm dry. Or lest I should be by and by, , Or any other reason why. Christ Church Meadow with a brother Fellow named Frowd, who began, as... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1921 - 314 pages
...chose to call himself) Griffith was one day walking round 1 The old, freer translation is well known: If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons...friend, because I'm dry. Or lest I should be by and by. Or any other reason why. Christ Church Meadow with a brother Fellow named Frowd, who began, as... | |
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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. 
