 | Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 670 Seiten
...verfes on the alteration of the beverage of Scotland, frail Port: Ereft and brave the Caledonian flood. Old was his mutton, and his claret good, " Make him drink Port," an Englilh ftatefmui cried : event that occurred. Wheti in agreeable company, he was lively, cheerful,... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield, Henry Mackenzie - 1822 - 614 Seiten
...the enforcement of the high duty on French wine in this country, is in most people's hands : " Firm and erect the Caledonian stood, Old was his mutton, and his claret good ; ' Let him drink port,' an English statesman cried — He drank the poison, and his spirit died."... | |
 | John Home - 1822 - 420 Seiten
...the enforcement of the high duty on French wine in this country, is in most people's hands : " Firm and erect the Caledonian stood, Old was his mutton, and his claret good ; ' Let him drink port,' an English statesman cried — Among the papers which have been preserved,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 624 Seiten
...applicable to the liquor called Southampton part. The epigram of John Home was as follows : — ' Firm and erect the Caledonian stood, Old was his mutton, and his claret good ; " Let him drink port," an English statesman cried— lie drank the poison, and his spirit died.'... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1831 - 590 Seiten
...price of claret was so much increased, in consequence of this additional duty, that many bon vivants were obliged to renounce it, and betake themselves...erect the Caledonian stood ; Old was his mutton, and bis claret good ; Make him drink port ! an English statesman cried, He drank the poison, and his spirit... | |
 | 1831 - 470 Seiten
...price of claret was so much increased, in consequence of this additional duty, that many bons vivant were obliged to renounce it, and betake themselves...meetings, they applied to their friend John Home, to nrite some verses expressive of their feelings. He immediately produced the following: — Bold and... | |
 | 1836 - 456 Seiten
...price of claret was so much increased, in consequence of this additional duty, that many bons vivans were obliged to renounce it, and betake themselves...their feelings. He immediately produced the following : — " BoH and orect the Culntaulan stood ; Old was his mutton, und his claret good. • Make him... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 428 Seiten
...of it, and was sure to anathematize a second, if offered, by repealing Jobn Home's epigram — / % " Bold and erect the Caledonian stood, Old was his mutton, and his claret good : Let him drink port, the English statesman cried — He drank the poison, and his spirit died." In... | |
 | 1837 - 598 Seiten
...glass of it, and was sure to anathematize a second, if offered, by repeating John Home's epigram— " Bold and erect the Caledonian stood; Old was his mutton, and his claret good ; Let him drink port, the English statesman cried— He drank the poison, and his spirit died." In... | |
 | 1827 - 630 Seiten
...applicable to the liquor called Southampton port. The epigram of John Home was as follows : — ' Firm aud erect the Caledonian stood, Old was his mutton, and his claret good ; " Let him drink port," an English statesman cried— . . He drank the poison, and his spirit died.'... | |
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Bold and erect the Caledonian stood; Old was his mutton, and his claret good ; Let him drink port, the English statesman cried— He drank the poison, and his spirit died. 
