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The History of the Northwest Coast - Part 1 1543-1800 (The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft - Volume 27)
The History of the Northwest Coast Part 1 15431800 - The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft - Volume 27 Author:George Bancroft Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: to upper stages for white-waistcoat boxes, on his being the first bird of the season; which it pleased him to hear; for the smallest of our gratifications in lif... more »e could give a happy tone to this brightly-constituted gentleman. CHAPTER III. OLD VEUVE. They were known at the house of the turtle and the attractive Old Veuve : a champagne of a sobered sweetness, of a great year, a great age, counting up to the extrcmer maturity attained by wines of stilly depths; and their worthy comrade, despite the wanton sparkles, for the promoting of the state of reverential wonderment in rapture, which an ancient wine will lead to, well you wot. The silly girly sugary crudity has given way to womanly suavity, matronly composure, with yet the sparkles; they ascend; but hue and flavour tell of a soul that has come to a lodgement there. It conducts the youthful man to temples of dusky thought: philosophers partakingof it are drawn by the arms of garlanded nymphs about their necks into the fathomless of inquiries. It presents us with a sphere, for the pursuit of the thing we covet most. It bubbles over mellowness; it has, in the marriage with Time, extracted a spice of individuality from. the saccharine: by miracle, one would say, were it not for our knowledge of the right noble issue of Time when he and good things unite. There should be somewhere legends of him and the wine-flask. There must be meanings to that effect in the Mythology, awaiting unravelment. For the subject opens to deeper than cellars, and is a tree with vast ramifications of the roots and the spreading growth, whereon half if not all the mythic Gods, Inferior and Superior, Infernal and Celestial, might be shown sitting in concord, performing in concert, harmoniously receiving sacrificial offerings of the black or the whi...« less