 | William Edward Fitch - 1918 - 822 pages
...mutton and baked hare, after which he fed full well on a capon. Nor did he forget to drink with it all. "He had his head in the glass five times as long as any of them, and drank no less at once than a quart of Rhine wine." It is further narrated that he became a victim of... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - 1926 - 580 pages
...the great Emperor, Charles V., he was more remarkable at Augsburg for his drink than for his food : " He had his head in the glass five times as long as any of us, and never drank less than a good quart at once of Rhenish wine." We are also glad to learn how... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1853 - 578 pages
...our genial author : — ' Roger Aschani, standing " hard by the imperial table at the feast of the Golden Fleece," watched with wonder the Emperor's...says the Fellow of St. John's, " the best that ever 1 saw. lie had his head in the glass five times as long as any of them, and never drank less than a... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1832 - 666 pages
...fellowship" there, and further when standing hard by the Emperor at his table, "who drank the best I ever saw — he had his head in the glass five times as long as any of us, and never drank less than a good quart at once of Rhenish wine,'' and his determination of providing... | |
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I ever saw — he had his head in the glass five times as long as any of us, and never drank less than a good quart at once of Rhenish wine... 
