 | Edmund Yates, E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1882 - 758 ページ
...POOR stuff, sir," exclaimed Doctor Johnson, when he saw Edmund Burke filling his glass with claret ; " claret is the liquor for boys, port for men, but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy." This was before the Fleet Street Philosopher made his famous "border raid" with... | |
 | Edmund Yates, E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1882 - 762 ページ
...POOR stuff, sir," exclaimed Doctor Johnson, when he saw Edmund Burke filling his glass with claret; " claret is the liquor for boys, port for men, but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy." This was before the Fleet Street Philosopher made his famous " border raid " with... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 ページ
...churlishly replied, " Yes, sir, if he sat next you." said claret, which he called " poor stuff," was " the liquor for boys, port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy." What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 ページ
...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 tu be a hero must drink brandy. A. SAM'L JOHNSON — Boswdts Life of Julinson. There is a devil in... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 ページ
...by a good tavern or inn. An. 177G. All this (wealth) excludes but one evil, — poverty. An. 1777. Claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. An. 1779. 1 St. Francis de Sales writes to Mad. de Chantal (1605): Do not be troubled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 ページ
...induced by Reynolds to drink one glass of it; but he shook his head and exclaimed : " Poor stuff! No, sir ; 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... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 ページ
...— Life, p. 248. In the first place, the flavour of brandy is Brandy most g^gf^ to tne paiate . an(j then brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him. And yet, as in all pleasure hope is a considerable part, I know not but fruition comes too quick by... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 376 ページ
...manner in which it is bestowed. — Life, p. 248. In the first place, the flavour of brandy is "dT most grateful to the palate ; and then brandy will do soonest for a mm what drinking can do for him. And yet, as in all pleasure hope is a considerable part, I know not... | |
 | 1895 - 454 ページ
...other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own." — JV-les's notes. " Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy." — Brothers B-rn-rd. ' Mere engines made by geometry." — Peabodynatnics. ' So... | |
 | 1886 - 150 ページ
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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. 
