Poetry and Alcohol
The Earl of Rochester: 'for five years together he was continually Drunk'.
KEATS
'now I like Claret whenever I can have Claret I must drink it. — 't is the only palate affair that I am at all sensual in.... For really 't is so fine — it fills the mouth one's mouth with a gushing freshness—then goes down cool and fever-less —then you do not feel it quarelling with your liver — no it is rather a Peace maker and lies as quiet as it did in the grape — then it is as fragrant as the Queen Bee; and the more ethereal Part of it mounts into the brain, not assaulting the cerebral apartments like a bully in a bad house looking for his trul and hurrying from door to door bouncing against the waistcoat; but rather walks like Aladin about his own enchanted palace so gently that you do not feel his step.'
Letters
'There was a young person in pink,
Who called out for something to drink;
But they said, 'O my daughter, There's nothing but water!'
Which vexed that young person in pink.'
Edward Lear
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