 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...lemonade ' in a whole night spent in festivity ' at the Ivy Lane Club. In 1757 he described himself 'as a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only tea ' (Johnson's Works, vi. 21). It was, I believe in his visit to Oxford in 1759 that 'University... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...lemonade ' in a whole night spent in festivity ' at the Ivy Lane Club. In 1757 he described himself 'as a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only tea ' (Johnson's Works, vi. 21). It was, I believe in his visit to Oxford in 1759 that ' University... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1814 - 640 pages
...his critic, a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, as he called himself, who, for twenty years, had 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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1813 - 568 pages
...cups at a sitting ; and he tells us himself, that he was a " hardened and shameless teadrinker, 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...production, Johnson candidly describes himself as " a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for many years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of...with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnights, and with tea welcomes the morning."] write upon the slightest subject, when he writes, as... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...gods had made her (1) [Johnson, in his review of Hallway's " Essay on Tea," describes himself ms " a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for...amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, vii' I with tea welcomes the morning."] 1 OKDOS. JOIiN Ml-HHAY, AI.DEMARLE STBKKT. ISM. poetical."... | |
 | American periodicals - 1894 - 856 pages
...Jonas Hanway, who landed coffee at the expense of tea, " I am a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, whose kettle has scarcely time to cool ; who with...evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea solaces the morning" — an utterance which called forth the punning Porsouiau parody, "Te veniente... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 374 pages
...tea-drinker, who has, for many years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinatingplant ; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool ; who, with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnights, and with tea welcomes the morning."] v.'rite upon the slightest subject, when he writes,... | |
 | 1850 - 1254 pages
...the days ir which he describes himself as 'a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has tot raany years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant ; whose kettle hai srareelv time to cool ; who with tea amuses thf evenings ; with tea solaces the midnights ; and... | |
 | Household words - 1852 - 252 pages
...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 infusion of...has scarcely time to cool ; who with tea amuses the evenings ; with tea solaces the midnights ; and with tea welcomes the morning.' This was the third... | |
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Johnson candidly describes himself as " a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for many years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant ; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool ; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea... 
