 The greatest artists are the greatest sots. The country poor do by example live; The gentry lead them, and the clergy drive: What may we not from such examples hope ? The landlord is their god, the priest their pope. A drunken clergy and a swearing bench...  Essays and Studies - Side 121av English Association - 1913Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Daniel Defoe - 1703 - 500 sider
...aregood-natur'd, fat tit Drink. In Englifb Ale their dear Enjoyment lies, For which they'll flarve themfelves and Families. An Englishman will fairly Drink as much As will maintain two Families of Dutch ; Subfeding all their Labour to their Pots ; "Ihegreateft Artitts are the greatest Sots. The Country... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1835 - 20 sider
...enjoyment lies, For which they'll starve themselves and families. 10 THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN. Ли Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch ; Subjecting all their labour to the pots, Tin; greatest artists are the greatest sots. Nor do the poor alone their liquor... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1836 - 48 sider
...or too much. So dull they never take the pains to think ; And seldom are good-natured but in drink. In English ale their dear enjoyment lies, For which...maintain two families of Dutch. Subjecting all their labour to the pots ; The greatest artists are the greatest sots ! The country poor do by example live,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe, George Chalmers - 1841 - 406 sider
...or too much. So dull, they never take the pains to think ; And seldom are good-natured but in drink. In English ale their dear enjoyment lies, For which...Dutch : Subjecting all their labours to the pots ; The greatest artists are the greatest sots. The country poor do by example live ; The gentry lead them,... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1843 - 396 sider
...relation to the "labouring poor," whom he represents as " lavish of their money and their time," says, In English ale their dear enjoyment lies, For which they'll starve themselves and families. * Colquhoun's Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis, Gth Edit. 1800. t Smith's " Wealth of Nations."... | |
 | Robert Pashley - 1852 - 494 sider
...and beggarly ; Good drunken company is their delight, And what they get by day they spend by night ; In English ale their dear enjoyment lies, For which they'll starve themselves and families. English ale has long ceased to be the sole, or even the main cause of their improvidence and suffering.... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1855 - 488 sider
...are good natured but in drink. A SATIRE. 45 IN English ale their dear enjoyment lies, For which they starve themselves and families. An Englishman will...Dutch : Subjecting all their labours to the pots ; The greatest artists are the greatest sots. The country poor do by example live ; ' The gentry lead them,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1855 - 502 sider
...And seldom are good natured but in drink. IN English ale their dear enjoyment lies, For which they starve themselves and families. An Englishman will...Dutch: Subjecting all their labours to the pots ; The greatest artists are the greatest sots. The country poor do by example live ; The gentry lead them,... | |
 | William Chadwick - 1859 - 504 sider
...families of Dutch; Subjecting all their labour to their pots, The greatest artists are the greatest sots. The country poor do by example live; The gentry lead...The landlord is their god, the priest their pope. A drunken clergy and a swearing bench Has giv'n the Reformation such a drench, As wise men think there... | |
 | James Dawson Burns - 1861 - 510 sider
...time of Queen Anne, and is satirised by Do Foe in his " True Born Englishman," where he says — " In English ale their dear enjoyment lies, For which they'll starve themselves and families." * As if the word " ale " were derived from '.he Latin " alere" to nourish or b 4. Its manufacture resembles... | |
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