Shakespeare and Alcohol

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Rodopi, 1978 - 100 pagini

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The Subtle Blood o th Grape
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Major Drinking Scenes
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Tables of Pertinent Words 71
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Pagina 37 - Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes ; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance : therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery : it makes him and it mars him ; it sets him on and it takes him off; it persuades him and disheartens him ; makes him stand to and not stand to ; -in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and giving him the lie, leaves him. Macd. I believe drink gave thee the lie last night. Port. That...
Pagina 19 - O thou invisible spirit of wine ! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Pagina 16 - The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels ; And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his pledge.
Pagina 21 - That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quench'd them hath given me fire.
Pagina 36 - Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love.
Pagina 16 - But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honour 'd in the breach than the observance.
Pagina 35 - tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us, like strumpets ; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune : the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels : Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I
Pagina 18 - And let me the canakin clink, clink; And let me the canakin clink A soldier's a man; A life's but a span; Why, then, let a soldier drink.
Pagina 12 - And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian': Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day'.

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