"Taverner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... professes a vague Agnosticism, and attributes popular faith to the fact that Timor fecit Deos; "every religion being, without exception, the child of fear and ignorance" (Carl Vogt). He now speaks as the "Drawer of the Wine," the "Ancient Taverner," the "Old Magus," the "Patron of the Mughan or Magians"; all titles applied to the Soofi as opposed to the Zahid. His "idols" are the eidola (illusions) of Bacon, "having their foundations in the very constitution of man," and therefore appropriately called fabulae. ...
— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton
... I was a taverner, A gentle gossip and a tapster, Of wine and ale a trusty brewer, Which ...
— Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages • Julia De Wolf Addison |
