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Elia shall string them up one day, and show their colors, or rather, how colorless and vapid the whole fry, when he putteth forth his long-promised, but unaccountably hitherto delayed, 'Confessions of a Water-Drinker."
"I declare," he cried, "there 's a career for a man, and I 've twenty minds to decide, on the spot, to embrace it to be the consummate, typical, original, national American artist! It 's inspiring!" Rowland burst out laughing and told him that he liked his practice better than his theory, and that a saner impulse than this had inspired his little Water-drinker.
To make a man pleased with himself, let me tell you, is doing a very great thing; "Si patriae volumus, si Nobis vivere cari." I was at this time myself a water-drinker, upon trial, by Johnson's recommendation. I did not mean to offend you. SIR JOSHUA. 'At first the taste of wine was disagreeable to me; but I brought myself to drink it, that I might be like other people.
Wordsworth tells the world, in ane of his prefaces, that he is a water-drinker and its weel seen on him. There was a sair want of speerit through the haill o' yon lang "Excursion."
Does not every one know, that a jovial pot-companion can never believe a water-drinker not to be a sneaking cheating knave who is afraid of his thoughts; that every libertine swears that those who pretend to be chaste, either have their mistress in secret, or far worse, and so on? Ib. p. 89.
On the next day, grave and sober as the water-drinker Mirglip, he bent his brow to the ground before Saladin's footstool, and rendered to the Soldan an account of his embassy.
He drinks his water, and seems to laugh at the Englishmen, though I doubt whether it is fair for a water-drinker to sit by and spy out the weaknesses of gentlemen over their wine." "And my boys? I hope they are prudent?" said the widow, laying her hand on her guest's arm. "Harry promised me, and when he gives his word, I can trust him for anything. George is always moderate.
He prayed to be forgiven his sin, and that he might live a steady and sober life for the time to come. He rose up comforted and satisfied. He felt he had done a duty. He was resolved to become a water-drinker, to pay no more visits to the man at the cottage, and to keep no intoxicating drinks in his house.
"But, I say, Soundings," said he, addressing himself familiarly to the master, who had not been long in the vessel, "let us see what sort of stuff you have stowed the forehold with. You know I am a water-drinker; give me only the pure limpid stream, and a child may lead me. I seldom touch liquor when the water is good." So saying, he poured out a tumbler, and held it to his nose.
And imagination has a place for the heir of the house. His grandfather a water-drinker, his father dying early, present circumstances to us arguing predestination to an illustrious heirship and career.
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