 | 1894 - 1020 pages
...manner, the addition of a single word gives liveliness to the famous speech in which Johnson said, " No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for...aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy." Smiling was added in the revise. Though I have by no means come to the end of Boswell's corrections,... | |
 | 1861 - 674 pages
...spoke with contempt of claret. " A man would be drowned by it before it made him drunk," adding, " Poor stuff ! No, sir, claret is the liquor for boys : port for men : but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy ! " Most toper sentiments ! But Ramsay did not stint his guests, and these were constantly... | |
 | George John Whyte- Melville - 1861 - 376 pages
...seemed to be much of old Doctor Johnson's opinion, as regarded fluids — " Claret is all very well for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero, sir (smiling), should drink brandy !" The usual toasts having been got through, and the company in... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...afterwards fool enough to expunge. " I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing." — Johnson. CLAHET is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who...the flavour of brandy is most grateful to the palate i and then brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him. There are, indeed, few who... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...good intentions.* Boswell's Life of Johnson. Ibid. Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.f Ibid. Claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. Ibid. If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies, "T is a proof that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 pages
...is harmless, pleasure pure and unalloyed, is as great a power as man can possess. WINE AND BRANDY. Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place, the flavour of brandy is most grateful to the palate ; and then... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...good intentions.t Boswett's Life of Joknson. Ibbi. Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.J ibid. Claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. ibid. If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, T is a proof that... | |
 | Joe Miller - 1871 - 200 pages
...and then you will cease to exist." Haranguing upon the qualities of liquors he said, ' ' Claret, sir, is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy." Talking of London, Johnson said, "London is nothing to some people ; but to a man... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...by it before it made him drunk.' He was persuaded to drink one glass of it, that he might judge, not from recollection, which might be dim, but from immediate...is the liquor for boys ; port for men : but he who anpirei to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy. In the first place, the flavour of brandy is most... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 376 pages
...who thus gave honour to Cognac. — " He was persuaded," says Boswell, " to take one glass of claret. He shook his head, and said, ' Poor stuff !— No,...claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but be who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy."* 7.— Page 315, line 4. Nor further mercy... | |
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Poor stuff! No, sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men : but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy. 
