 | 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,... | |
 | 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.'... | |
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 488 pages
...Increased, in con•equence of this additional duty, that many bans vivans were obliged to renounce it, and betake themselves to port ; and. in despair, at...their feelings. He immediately produced the following: 1 Bold and erect the Caledonian stood ; Old was his mutton, and his claret good ; Make him drink port... | |
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 486 pages
...increased, in consequence of this additional duty, that many bons vivan<\ri-re obliged to renounce it, and betake themselves to port • and in despair,...applied to their friend John Home, to write some verses exprr-sive of their feelings. He immediately produced tile following: ' Bold and erect the Caledonian... | |
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 470 pages
...increased, in consequence of this additional duty, that many bons vivant were obliged to renounce it, and betake themselves to port ; and, in despair, at...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 pages
...increased, in consequence of this additional duty, that many bons vivans were obliged to renounce it, and betake themselves to port ; and, in despair, at...their feelings. He immediately produced the following : — " BoH and orect the Culntaulan stood ; Old was his mutton, und his claret good. • Make him... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1827 - 630 pages
...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. 
