 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - London (England) - 1824 - 392 pages
...synonymous, every stanza to the number of twelve ending, VOL. III.] UZ H Give me sacke, old saeke, boys, To make the muses merry, The life of mirth, and the joy of the earth, Ts a cup of good Old Shetvy." Prince Hal was not the only member of, the royal family, who frequented... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1825 - 576 pages
...merry sack,' or simply for your pale modern Sherry, Pasquil's Palinodia saith justly, that ' The lite of mirth, and the joy of the earth, Is a cup of good old Sherry.' Yet it is monstrous that even this fine wine, so powerful in itself, should be defiled~with brandy... | |
 | Wine and wine making - 1830 - 316 pages
...sherry are noted throughout as synonimous, every stanza of twelve ending, — Give me sack, old sack, boys, To make the muses merry ; The life of mirth, and the joy of the earth, Is a cup of old Sherry. PASQUIL'S PALINODIA. car, another sweet wine is manufactured; but this is not so highly... | |
 | Thomas Dodgson - Alcoholism - 1832 - 190 pages
...stanza, to the number of twelve, ending, — Give me sack, old sack, boys, To make the mnses merry ; Th« life of mirth, and the joy of the earth, Is a cup ofgood old Sherry, PAIQUIL, an astringent and bitter sweet taste ; and with an odour and flavour of... | |
 | Rigdum Funnidos - 1836 - 436 pages
...of Wines, their Growth, and Management By the Editor of " Hints for the Table.»-[7n the Press.] " The life of mirth, and the joy of the earth. Is a cup of good old Sherry. "---PAaauiL's PAUNODUSEVEN HUNDRED DOMESTIC HINTS. Combining Elegance and Economy with the Enjoyment... | |
 | Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - Science - 1842 - 346 pages
...Guide to the Choice of Wines, their Growth, and Management. By the Editor of " Hints for the Table." " The life of mirth, and the joy of the earth. Is a cup of good old Sherry."— PASQUIL'S PALINODIA. SEVEN HUNDRED DOMESTIC HINTS, Combining Elegance and Economy with the Enjoyment... | |
 | John O'Neill - 1842 - 100 pages
...Guide to the Choice of Wines, their Growth, and Management. By the Editor of " Hints for the Table." " The life of mirth, and the joy of the earth, Is a cup of good old Sherry. "-"--PAsauiL's PALINODIA. SEVEN HUNDRED DOMESTIC HINTS, Combining Elegance and Economy with the Enjoyment... | |
 | Cigars - 1849 - 134 pages
...addict themselves to sack." In Pasquil's "Palinodia," published 1010, we have the following : — " Give me sacke, old sacke, boys, To make the muses...the joy of the earth Is a cup of good old sherry.'' During the latter half of the seventeenth century, we find references to Rhine wines and Champagne.... | |
 | 1860 - 548 pages
...this is not very probable. Sherry and sack are, however, always coupled. " Give me sack, old sack, boys. To make the Muses merry ; The life of mirth and the joy of the earth, Is a cop of old sherry !" wrote one of the seventeenth century. B«t to return to our sherry. The immediate... | |
 | Grapes - 1861 - 164 pages
...should be,—to forswear thin potations, and addict themselves to sack." " Give me sacke,—old sacko, boys, To make the Muses merry ; The life of mirth, and the joy of the earth, . - • I* ft cup of good old sherry." —Patquil. In the Mystery of Vintner*, published in 1692, is... | |
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Give me sacke, old sacke, boys, To make the muses merry. The life of mirth, and the joy of the earth, Is a cup of good old sherry. 
