 | Hugo Erichsen - 1894 - 184 σελίδες
...lights around him, and a bottle of wine by his side. He used to say: "If a thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it." Lamartine, in the days of his prosperity, composed in a studio with tropical plants, birds, and every... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1901 - 748 σελίδες
...was one of his favourite helps to inspiration. " If the thought," he would say, " is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it ; and, when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it." SHERIDAN'S BOOTS. SHERIDAN made his appearance one day in a new pair of boots. These attracting the... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1902 - 206 σελίδες
...too, was one of his favorite helps to inspiration. "If the thought," b would say, "is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it ; and, when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it." Sheridan always said that the Duke of Wellington would succeed in Portugal ; General 167 Tarleton held... | |
 | 1917 - 888 σελίδες
...blues with society and good cheer. "If the thought," he would say, " is slow to come, a good glass of wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it." Perhaps it was his lavish use of such incitements and guerdons that kept much of the melancholy out... | |
 | 1917 - 984 σελίδες
...blues with society and good cheer. " If the thought," he would say, " is slow to come, a good glass of wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it." Perhaps it was his lavish use of such incitements and guerdons that kept much of the melancholy out... | |
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If the thought (he would say) is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it, and, when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it. 
