The Night Side of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

Author:J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie [Ritchie, J. Ewing]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781512202083
Google: hLSSrgEACAAJ
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-05-13T00:34:48+00:00

DR JOHNSON’S TAVERN.

Leigh Hunt, Barry Cornwall, and the Times are all eloquent in the praise of alcohol. It lifts us above this dull earth, it fires our genius, it gives to us the large utterances of the gods. Barry Cornwall tells us—

“Bad are the times

And bad the rhymes

That scorn old wine.”

Leigh Hunt translates “Bacchus in Tuscany,” and sanctions such lines as the following—

“I would sooner take to poison

Than a single cup set eyes on

Of that bitter and guilty stuff ye

Talk of by the name of coffee;”

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