“From humble Port to imperial Tokay.”
James Townley (1714–1778) English clergyman and dramatist
High Life below Stairs (1759), Act ii, Scene 1.
“Talk of the "imperial decay" of your invalid port. "Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession."”
One-Upmanship (1952) p. 143
On how to talk up a faded Cockburn 1897.
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