Prose halieutics; or, Ancient and modern fish tattle / Fraser's magazine.
- Charles David Badham
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Prose halieutics; or, Ancient and modern fish tattle / Fraser's magazine. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![Insulter par lenrs cris sauyages L’astre eclatant de l’univers. Cris impuissans ! fureurs bizarres ! Tandis que ces monstres barbares Poussaient d’insolens clameurs, Le Dieu, poursuivant sa carriere, Versait un torrent de lumiere Sur ses obscnrs blasphemateurs ! All those guilty extravagancies which so lately dis- graced our grandfathers’ dining tables; those apple fights (fjL7i\o/j,a%la’s) and orange factions which were familiar to bachelor parties in days gone, let us hope, never to re- turn, equally disturbed, no doubt, the festive boards of an- cient Greece and Rome; and young Cicero, who is accused of having thrown a goblet at the head of Mark Antony, is only one lively original actor, in classic times, of a scene of as daily occurrence then as during the reign of Bacchus and the regency of George IV., alike among the sons of eminent statesmen and those of less dignified pa- rentage. ’E/c(f>€pecr0(u 'kotov, subaudi drunk, is a phrase of which the English equivalent is well known; and since the action of wine upon the human brain must have been at all times the same, the vigorous lines in which Crabbe depicts the progress of temulency amongst a club of topers at the Red Lion of Aldborough, will apply equally to the orgies of a Roman convivium, of a Greek syna- gogue, or of a Bacchic festival any and everywhere: Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dulness from the brains ; The gloomy vapour from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise ; Still it proceeds, till from the glowing heat The prudent calmly to their shades retreat.* Then is the mind o’ercast: in wordy rage And loud contention angry men engage; # ’AXXa arv, ravra yivco(TK(OV, prj itlv oivov V7rep[3o\adr]v,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24974456_0541.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
