Date: 1701
"And if a bottle does their brains refine, / It makes their wit as sparkling as their wine."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"A little Learning is a dang'rous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Piërian spring: / There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, / And drinking largely sobers us again."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)