 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 หน้า
...recollection, which might be dim, but from immediate sensation. He shook his head, and said, 'Poor stuff ! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for...aspires to be a hero (smiling, ) must drink brandy. In the first place, the flavour of brandy is most grateful to the palate ; and then brandy will do... | |
 | 1906 - 810 หน้า
...The Doorstep, st, 12 a"Fill our bowls; once more," — according to differing versions, Brandy, — Claret is the liquor for boys : port for men : but he who aspires to be a hero must drmk brandy, , , , Brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him, SAMUEL JOHNSON,... | |
 | 1906 - 120 หน้า
...vermouth. Add a two-pound lump of ice, and three oranges and one pineapple sliced. Serve in flat glasses. "Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy." Mode. — Pour three pints of boiling water over one and one-fourth pounds of loaf... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...recollection, which might be dim, 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 1 Mr. Mauritius Lowe, a painter.— MALONE. (smiling) must drink brandy. In the first place, the flavour... | |
 | Elinor Mordaunt - 1911 - 338 หน้า
...and making fast the ripping sail till there was time to repair it properly. CHAPTER XX " Claret is a liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy."— SAMUEL JOHNSON. THAT the fatal rule of three holds good on board ship as well... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - 1911 - 788 หน้า
...Everyone knows the famous Johnsonian saying after being induced to taste a glass of claret, "Claret for boys, port for men, but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy." I may mention that Johnson would not let Boswell drink the king's health in whisky,... | |
 | Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale - 1915 - 454 หน้า
...with her and one or two others in a very sacred mosque ; a pious Moslem was prostrate before the • " No, sir ! Claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy." Boswell, April 7th, 1779. tomb of a holy saint. She did not actually strike him... | |
 | Gallobelgicus - 1915 - 68 หน้า
...resemblance to the judgment in Work for Cutlers, etc., see Introduction, p. 15, note. Cf. Johnson's dictum: "Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy." (Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. Hill, III, 381). The apportionment of wine to the... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 หน้า
...morning, would have proved a coward. Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, man of letters Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-17984) English author, lexicographer The more characteristic... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 หน้า
...sport. Eventually the whole family gets to play. — Joyce Rebeta-Burditt Claret is the liquor foi boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. — Samuel Johnson I don't drink any more — just the same amount. — Joe E. Lewis... | |
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy. 
