| James Finlay Weir Johnston - 1880 - 636 Seiten
...tea-triumphs — the days in which he describes himself as " a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for many years diluted his meals with only...the midnights, and with tea welcomes the morning." The growth and consumption of tea are now really enonnous. Mr Ingham Travers estimated (in 1852) the... | |
| James Boswell - 1880 - 488 Seiten
...Southill, in Bedfordshire, there is the following epitaph upon his monument, which I have transcribed : whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces tbe midnights, and with tea welcomes the morning." 1 Sir John Hawkins calls... | |
| Henry Gribble - 1883 - 104 Seiten
...The learned Doctor drew his own portrait as " a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant ; whose kettle had scarcely time to cool ; who with tea amused the evening, with tea solaced the midnight, and with... | |
| Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1884 - 324 Seiten
...Bedford ' or ' Turk's Head Coffee House.' Johnson was an inveterate, or, as he describes himself, ' a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has for...has scarcely time to cool, who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnights, and with tea welcomes the morning.'t Never was he in such... | |
| Richard Valpy French - 1884 - 446 Seiten
...Tea against Mr. Jonas Hanway, Johnson describes himself as ' a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for many years diluted his meals with only...has scarcely time to cool ; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnights, and with tea welcomes the morning.' This last phrase his friend,... | |
| James Macaulay - 1884 - 164 Seiten
...its Pernicious Consequences," the Doctor describes himself as "a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for many years diluted his meals with only...has scarcely time to cool ; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning." * TO BE CONTINUED. V/[R.... | |
| James Boswell - 1884 - 722 Seiten
...felt 1 In this review, Johnson candidly describes himself as " a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for many years diluted his meals with only...fascinating plant ; whose kettle has scarcely time to the least inconvenience from it ; which is a proof that the fault of his constitution was rather a... | |
| James Hay - 1884 - 400 Seiten
...hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who for twenty y ears diluted his meals with only the infusion of the fascinating plant, whose kettle has scarcely time...with tea amuses the evenings, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning. When staying at Dunvegan Castle in Skye, although he would... | |
| Arthur Reade - 1884 - 178 Seiten
...it. Johnson replied to the attack, and described himself as a " hardened and shameless teadrinker, whose kettle has scarcely time to cool ; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea •welcomes the morning." Johnson's defence did... | |
| Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1885 - 306 Seiten
...Bedford ' or ' Turk's Head Coffee House.' Johnson was an inveterate, or, as he describes himself, ' a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has for...has scarcely time to cool, who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnights, and with tea welcomes the morning.'t Never was he in such... | |
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