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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. "
The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles ... - Página 61
1831
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The Code of Health and Longevity: Or, A Concise View, of the Principles ...

Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 670 páginas
...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,...
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Correspondence of the Late Gilbert Wakefield, B. A.: With the Late Right ...

Gilbert Wakefield, Henry Mackenzie - 1822 - 614 páginas
...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."...
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Account of the life of Mr. John Home. Appendix to biographical account of Mr ...

John Home - 1822 - 420 páginas
...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,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumen36

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 páginas
...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.'...
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The Correspondence of the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart: With ...

Sir John Sinclair - 1831 - 590 páginas
...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...
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volumen7

1831 - 470 páginas
...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...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volumen27

1836 - 456 páginas
...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...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott: In Four Volumes, Volumen2

John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 428 páginas
...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...
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Foster's Cabinet Miscellany: A Series of Publications on Various ..., Volumen3

1837 - 598 páginas
...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...
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The Quarterly review, Volumen36

1827 - 630 páginas
...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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