When you smooth The brows of care, indulge the festive vein In cups by well-informed experience found The least your bane. Armstrong.—On Preserving Health, Line 476.
[In an essay on the excellences of Tar Water, Bishop Berkeley says, “It emulates the virtues of that famous plant Gin Seng, so much valued in China as the only cordial that raises the spirits without depressing them.” See his Siris, Vol. II. Division 66.—“The effect of all wines and spirits upon me is strange. It settles, but it makes me gloomy.”—Byron, Diary, 1821.]
