 | Mabel E. Wotton - 1887 - 376 σελίδες
...He had a thoughtful speaking eye, and that was all. He gave himself up early to drinking, and, like the unhappy wits of that age, passed his days between rioting and fasting, ranting jollity and abject penitence, carousing one week with Lord PI th, and then starving a month in low... | |
 | Alexandre Beljame - 1897 - 640 σελίδες
...know any trifling circumstance concerning Olvay.... He gave himself up early to drinking, and like the unhappy wits of that age passed his days between rioting, and fasting, ranting jollity, and abject penitence, carousing one week with Ld Pl—lh, and then starving a month in low... | |
 | Thomas Otway - 1926 - 352 σελίδες
...Saturday, 28 April, 171 1. •f Tradition said " He [Otway] gave himself up early to drinking, and like the unhappy wits of that age, passed his days between rioting and fasting, ranting jollity and abject penitence, carousing one week with Lord PI — th, and then starving a month in... | |
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His person was of the middle size, about five feet seven inches high, inclinable to fatness. He had a thoughtful speaking eye, and that was all. He gave himself up early to drinking ; and, like the unhappy wits of that age, passed his days between rioting... 
