Active Blogs | Popular Blogs | Recent Blogs

vikty xia's Blogs >> fjworuowqurthoqwu4e Swift wrote

In the following year to that last named, Swift wrote a letter to Pope, in which I find a paragraph affording a table gucci outlettrait of some interest: " I remember," he says, " when it grieved your soul to see me pay a penny more than my club, at an inn, when you had maintained me three months at bed and board; for which, if I had dealt with you in the gucci outlet onlineSmithfield way, it would have cost me a hundred pounds, for I live worse here (Dublin) upon more. Did you ever consider that I am, for life, almost twice as rich as you, and pay no rent, and drink French wine twice as gucci ukcheap as you do port, and have neither coach, chair, nor mother?" Pope illustrates Bolingbrokes way of living as well as his own some years later. The reveller till two in the morning, of the year 1715, is sobered down to the most temperate of table men, in 1728. "My Lord Bolingbrokes great temperance and economy are so signal, that the first is fit for my constitution, and the latter would enable you to lay up so much money as to buy a bishopric in England. As to the return of his health and vigour, were you here, you might inquire of his haymakers. But, as to his temperance, I can answer that, for one whole day, we have had nothing for dinner but mutton broth, beans and bacon, and a barn-door fowl;" after all, no bad fare either, for peer or poet! Swift too, gucci onlineat this period, boasts no longer of his " French wines." His appetite is affected by the appalling fact, that the national debt amounts to the unheard-of sum of seven millions sterling! and thereupon he says : " I dine alone on half a dish of meat, mix water with my wine, walk ten miles a-day, and read Baronius." Such was the table and daily life of an author who be¬gan to despair of his country! In 1732, however, the dean was again ftdl of hope,¡ªwe see it in the condition of his wine matters: " My stint in company," he writes to Gay, " is a pint at noon, and half as much at night; but I often dine at home, like a hermit, and then I drink little or none at all." Was it that he despaired again, when alone; or that he only drank- copiously at others cost?