"Acidulate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this part of England—perhaps for ever—without seeing you once more. I am very sad about it, for I love Bristol, and I do not love London; and besides, local and temporary politics have become my aversion. They narrow the understanding, and at least acidulate the heart; but those two giants, yclept Bread and Cheese, bend me into compliance. I must do something. If I go, farewell, Philosophy! farewell, the Muse! ...
— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull |
