CONFESSIONS OF A DRUNKARD
Persons not accustomed to examine tives of tions, to reckon up tless nails t rivet t, or pere as to, may recoil from ture. But esting friends, a ing o goodness, to ?
I after Correggio, in o a man bound to t of a tree. Sensuality is soot is nailing o a branc tant of time is applying a snake to , tion of past ration of present pleasures, languid enjoyment of evil ter imbecility to good, a Sybaritic effeminacy, a submission to bondage, tantaneous, or tter forerunning tion-all ted in one point of time. er. But , because I t of my oion.
Of t t it sers out of t to all t set a foot in to ering upon some neo my desolation, and be made to understand is ion and o stop it, and yet to feel it all ting from o perceive all goodness emptied out of not to be able to forget a time o bear about teous spectacle of nigs repetition of t of o be delivered,-- it s mantling temptation; to make eeth
and not undo em
to suffer Et DAMNAtION to run thro em.
Yea, but (met) if sobriety be to understand, if ts of a cool brain are to be preferred to t state of ed excitement you do not return to ts from not h recovering?
Recovering!-- Oransport me back to t from t clear spring could slake any s ir up in turn to t, t! In my dreams I can sometimes fancy t purling over my burning tongue. But my omacs it. t w.
But is t total abstinence and t you may never attain to my experience, utter trut t I can find. In my stage of (I speak not of s less confirme