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"L'exemple d'un monarque ordonne et se fait suivre: Quand Auguste buvait, la Pologne était ivre; Et quand Louis le Grand brûlait d'un tendre amour, Paris devint Cythère, et tout suivait sa cour; Lorsqu'il devint dévot, ardent
Passively obdurate during the day; but rather demonstratively obdurate towards night. Peckaby, a quiet, civil man enough when sober, was just the contrary when ivre; and since he had joined the blacksmith's shop, his evening visits to a noted public-house the Plough and Harrow had become frequent.
Voltaire plays gentleman usher for him to his countrymen, and then, perceiving that his countrymen find a flavor in him beyond that of Zaire or Mahomet, discovers him to be a Sauvage ivre, sans le moindre etincelle de bon gout, et sans le moindre connoissance des regles.
A new intoxication carried him away. 'Il faut etre toujours ivre. Tout est la: c'est l'unique question. Little though he knew it, Gordon was a disciple of Baudelaire. 'Pour ne pas sentir l'horrible fardeau du Temps qui brise vos epaules et vous penche vers la terre, il faut vous enivrer sans treve. Yes- but how feeble were those gross resources of the miserable Abdul-Shakur! Rum? Brandy?
His letters from Berlin grew fewer and fewer, and more and more ambiguous; she knew nothing of his plans; 'il est ivre absolument' she burst out in her distress to d'Argental, one of his oldest friends. By every post she dreaded to learn at last that he had deserted her for ever. But suddenly Voltaire returned. The spell of Berlin had been broken, and he was at her feet once more.
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