Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... pot." ' L. The Puritan Preachers and Prynne abound in denunciations of the ' round' of drinking healths. St. vi. 1. 1, 'mother kill: ' 'Some such brutalities are related by historians of Cambyses and of Nero. Allusion may be m ade to the story of a youth whom Satan tempted to kill his mother. The horrible proposal was indignantly resented. Then Satan tempted him to kill his sister, which was likewise Bpurned. Next he tempted him with drunkenness; and the youth yielded as to what he thought a venial offence, and he came home mad-drunk, and in his fury killed his mother, then with child of a daughter. Ryley's Notes, 1745.' L. On these Notes (in a Bodleian Ms.) see our Essay. Cf. for the anecdote Brooks' ' Precious Remedies' (Works by us, vol. i. p. 20), where other references are given, and the strange association of it with Judas. St, vi. 1.3, ' all kinds of ill: ' 'for examples, Noah, Lot, Nabab, Amnon, Belshazzar, Holofernes, Cambyses, Philip, Alexander.' L. St. vi. 11. 5, 6. See Various Readings here, lb. 1. 5, ' devest: ' 'here used, like a Latin verbum exuendi, with a second accusative. We now say divest o/.' L. =put off: we unnecessarily say ' divest himself of.' St. vi. 1. 6, ' all worldly right: ' 'i.e. all right in the world, every privilege on earth.' L. 'beast: ' so Shakespeare: 'O, I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial' (Othello, ii. 3). Jac. Prud. has ' where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.' St. vii. 1. 1, ' wine-sprung: ' 'So in semi-slang, a tipsy man is said to be sprung: so a bat that is not sound; or a ship springs a leak, and lets in the water.' L. 'sprung'=out of its place, i.e. & mind made to start aside or become warped by wine. St. vii. 1.2, 'hie.
