In his dying hours, Nelson was attended by his chaplain, Alexander Scott; his steward, Chevalier; and the purser, Walter Burke. Their accounts have been available to Nelson's modern biographers. This was a request to alleviate his symptoms of thirst, heat, and the pains of his wounds, as quoted in Horatio Nelson (1987) by Tom Pocock, p. 331
The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
— Lady Gaga American singer, songwriter, and actress 1986
— F. Scott Fitzgerald American novelist and screenwriter 1896 - 1940
Variante: First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
— William Wordsworth, livre Lyrical Ballads
The Pet Lamb. A Pastoral, st. 1 (1800).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
— Anacreon Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns -570 - -485 avant J.-C.
Odes, 21.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Source: The Great Gatsby
— Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973
Quoted in: Scott Slater, Alec Solomita (1980), Exits: stories of dying moments & parting words. p. 8.
Slater & Solomita (1980) explained:
"It was a spirited dinner and Picasso a cheerful, genial host. After the meal, while pouring wine into a friend's glass, Picasso said, Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more. A little later, about 11:30 P.M., he left his guests, saying, And now I must go back to work. He was up painting until 3:00 A.M. That morning Picasso woke at 11:30, unable to move. By 11:40 he was dead..".
1970s
— Abraham Cowley British writer 1618 - 1667
From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
— Increase Mather Puritan minister, academic, activist 1639 - 1723
As quoted in The Truth About Alcohol (2005) by Barry Youngerman and Mark J. Kittleson, p. 129.
— Vivian Stanshall English musician, artist and author 1943 - 1995
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
— F. Scott Fitzgerald American novelist and screenwriter 1896 - 1940
Source: Gatsby Girls
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden ou la Vie dans les bois
Source: Walden
— Cormac McCarthy, livre Méridien de sang
The judge
Blood Meridian (1985)
— Scott Lynch, livre Red Seas Under Red Skies
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 1 “Little Games” section 4 (p. 29)
