 | Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 574 sivua
...doses of white hellebore, a great aperient, as a preparation to refute the dogmas of the stoics. " The thing that gives me the highest spirits (it seems absurd, but true) is a dose of salts ; but one can't take them like champagne," said Lord Byron. Dryden's practice was neither whimsical... | |
 | Reuben Dimond Mussey - 1862 - 398 sivua
...drink and bear a good deal of wine (as you may recollect in England), but it don't exhilarate, — it makes me savage and suspicious, and even quarrelsome....spirits (it seems absurd, but true) is a dose of salts. I mean in the afternoon, after their effect. But we can't take them like champagne." Dryden's experience... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1866 - 570 sivua
...doses of white hellebore, a great aperient, as a preparation to refute the dogmas of the stoics. " The thing that gives me the highest spirits (it seems absurd, but true) is a dose of salts ; but one can't take them like champagne," said Lord Byron. Dryden's practice was neither whimsical... | |
 | Isaac Burney Yeo - 1870 - 132 sivua
...the belly.' . Lord Byron's experience appears to agree with that of Dryden. His lordship observes, ' The thing that gives me the highest spirits (it seems absurd, but true) is a dose of salts ; but one can't take them like champagne.' And we have far more ancient testimony to the same effect.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 478 sivua
...doses of white hellebore, a great aperient, as a preparation to refute the dogmas of the stoics. " The thing that gives me the highest spirits (it seems absurd but true) is a dose of salts ; but one can't take them like champagne," said Lord Byron. Dryden's practice was neither whimsical... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1883 - 410 sivua
...his experience of the same preparation of the narcotic drug he writes on October 6, 1821, to Moore, ' Laudanum has a similar effect ; but I can take much of it without any effect at all.' He still used aperient medicine, not only to preserve himself from fatness and correct the old morbid... | |
 | Isaac Burney Yeo - 1885 - 676 sivua
...must have a care of the pensive part ; in fine, you must purge the belly." And Lord Byron observes : " The thing that gives me the highest spirits (it seems absurd, but true) is a dose of salts ; but one can't take them like champagne," and we have far more ancient testimony to the same effect.... | |
 | 1893 - 680 sivua
...of physical and mental energy. That brilliant pessimist, Lord Byron, in a letter to a friend wrote: "The thing that gives me the highest spirits, it seems absurd but true, is a dose of salts, but one cannot take them like champagne." I am satisfied this remark of the great poet would not have... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901 - 664 sivua
...drink, and bear a good deal of wine (as you may recollect in England) ; but it don't exhilarate — it makes me savage and suspicious, and even quarrelsome....spirits (it seems absurd, but true) is a dose of salts — I mean in the afternoon, after their effect. But one can't take them like champagne. Excuse this... | |
 | 1899 - 670 sivua
...good deal of wine, but it don't exhilarate ; it makes me savage and suspicious and even quarrelsome. The thing that gives me the highest spirits — it seems absurd, but it is true — is a dose of salts. I mean in the afternoon after their effect, but we can't take them... | |
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England); but it don't exhilarate — it makes me savage and suspicious, and even quarrelsome. Laudanum has a similar effect; but I can take much of it without any effect at all. The thing that gives me the highest spirits (it seems absurd, but true)... 
