| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...from immediate sensation. He shook his head, and said, " 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. In the first place, the flavour of brandy is most grateful to the palate... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pages
...from immediate sensation. He shook his 1 head, and said, "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. In the first place, the flavour of brandy is most grateful to the palate;... | |
| James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...from immediate sensation. He shook his head, and said, " 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. In the first place, tTie flavour of brandy is most grateful to the palate... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...but from immediate seus;ttion. He shook his head, and said, Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brajndy. In the first place, tlie flavour of brandy is most grateful to the pulule:... | |
| John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...from, immediate sensation. He shook his head, and said, " 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. In the first place, the flavour of brandy is most grateful to the palate;... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 458 pages
...from immediate sensation, He shook his head, and said, " 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. In the first place, the flavour of brandy is most grateful to the palate... | |
| Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - Table-talk - 1825 - 370 pages
...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) must drink brandy. In the first place, the flavour of brandy is most grateful to the palate... | |
| James Boswell - 1826 - 416 pages
...from immediate sensation. He shook his head, and said, " 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. In the first place, the flavour of brandy is most grateful to the palate;... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1830 - 592 pages
...table of Sir Joshua Reynolds he said, speaking of claret; ' 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. In the first place, the flavor of brandy is most grateful to the palate... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 592 pages
...but from immediate sensation. He shook his head, and said, "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. In the first place, the flavour of brandy is most grateful to the palate... | |
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