 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1888 - 942 pages
...expressed great contempt for claret, saying, " a man would be drowned by it before it made him drunk. 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 flavor of brandy is most grateful to the palate, and then... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 578 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...claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but le who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy. In tho first place, the flavour of brandy... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 460 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...sensation. He shook his head, and said, " Poor stuff 1 No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling)... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pages
...name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. 1210 Robert Hall : Gregory's Life of. Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. 1211 Johnson: BusweW s Life of Johnson. 1779. Vol. iii. Ch. 14. (lioutledge edition.)... | |
 | 1889 - 934 pages
...thought? Even in th' oppressive grasp of poverty It can enlarge, and bid the soul be free. <j. HORACE. Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. n. ' SAM'L JOHNSON— gasmen's Life of Johnson. There is a devil in every berry... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 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...sensation. He shook his head, and said, " Poor stuff 1 No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men : but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling)... | |
 | 1891 - 408 pages
...Miss Abbott. — " Look down, you Gods, And on this couple drop a blessed crown." HH Bradley. — " Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; But he who aspires to be a hero, Must drink something stronger. ' ' JH Car/rey — ' ' Mine honors are my life ; "Take honors from me... | |
 | James Mew, John Ashton - 1892 - 382 pages
...by it, before it made him drunk.' He was persuaded to drink one glass of it, that he might judgenot from recollection, which might be dim, but from immediate...brandy. In the first place the flavour of brandy is the most grateful to the palate, and then brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for... | |
 | 1894 - 1008 pages
...manner, the addition of a single word gives liveliness to the famous speech in whicli 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,... | |
 | 1895 - 500 pages
...Cauliflower. " Why, here he comes, strutting like a turkey-cock." Mumm's Extra Dry. " Claret is good for boys, port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink champagne. " — Boswell's Johnson. Sorbet, Berks County Medical Society. Cigarettes. "... | |
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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. 
