 | Sir John Sinclair - Hygiene - 1807 - 670 pages
...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 - Classical literature - 1822 - 614 pages
...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 - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1822 - 420 pages
...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,... | |
 | James Mitchell - Scotland - 1825 - 798 pages
...French wines.— " Firm and erect the Caledonian stood, Old was his mutton, and hie claret good ; ' Let him drink port!' an English statesman cried — He drank the poison, and his spirit died." Explanation by Baron Hume, nephew to the historian : — " John Hume was very strenuous in support... | |
 | 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 - 1827 - 624 pages
...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.'... | |
 | Thomas John Graham, Physician - Health - 1829 - 378 pages
...the beverage of Scotland from claret to port. " Great and brave the Caledonian stood, " Old was the mutton, and his claret good. " ' Make him drink port,'...cried : " He drank the poison and his spirit died." him, the head excepted, and, it is said, was the occasion of his general good health otherways. '.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 488 pages
...John Home, to write some verses expressive of their feelings. He immediately produced the following: 1 Bold and erect the Caledonian stood ; Old was his...English statesman cried ; He drank the poison, and bis spirit died.' '• Fortunately, it has since been found by experience, that port is no poison,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 394 pages
...follows :— *' Firm and erect the Caledonian stood, Old u-as his mutton, and his elart't good ; • Let him drink port/ an English statesman cried—, He drank the poison, and his spirit died." to the continent. As the regiment advanced to the battle of Fontenoy, the commanding officer, Sir Robert... | |
 | Literature - 1837 - 598 pages
...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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 428 pages
...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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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. 
