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Leigh Hunt, Barry Cornwall, and the _Times_ are all eloquent in the praise of alcohol. It lifts us above this dull earth, it fires our genius, it gives to us the large utterances of the gods. Barry Cornwall tells us --
"Bad are the times / And bad the rhymes / That scorn old wine. "