15 Sep , 2009
Last Night’s Vice weighs down the body and through it the soul
Posted by: jfitzsimmons In: Blog
I was doing my weekly “last nights vice” -presidential, -debate google search (try it out sometme), when I came across this piece of literature. It is titled “Horace’s life and character: An epitome of his Satires and Epistles” by Robert Hovenden. The only information I could find about it was that it was written in 1887 and it is a work of Literary Criticism.
I thought I’d write about this to add some class to the website. Maybe i’d be able to create some rumor about how we got our name, eventhough we explain it in this interview.
Men rise from heavy suppers: last night’s vice
Weighs down the body and through it the soul,
Embruting the diviner part of man.
Another, supping lightly, sleeps at once,
And wakes refresh’d to his appointed work.
Yet will he sometimes give himself a treat,
When the New-Year brings round a festive day,
Or his spare body craves a little change,
Or when years and infirmity excuse
Soft treatment: what can men fall back upon,
In youth and health carousing to excess,
When sickness overtakes them or old age?
Read the whole “Horace’s life and character” on google books.
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