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To warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. - Bishop George Berkeley The ship from Ceylon, Inde, or far Cathay, unloads for him the fragrant produce of each trip. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Picture you upon my knee, Just tea two and two for tea. - Irving Caesar, Tea for Two, a song Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea. - Charles Churchill, The Ghost (bk. I, l. 117) Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, . . . thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate. - Colley Cibber, Lady's Last Stake (act I, sc. 1) Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slopkettles. - William Cobbett Now stir the fire, and close the shudders fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. - William Cowper, Task (bk. IV, l. 36) The gentle fair on nervous tea relies, Whilst gay good-nature sparkles in her eyes; An inoffensive scandal fluttering round, Too rough to tickle, and too light to wound. - George Crabbe Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") And afterwards I did send for a copy of tee )a Chine drink), of which I never had drunk before. - Samuel Pepys And sip with nymphs their elemental tea. - Alexander Pope Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea. - Alexander Pope, Rape of the Lock (canto III, l. 7) Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. - Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir (vol. I, p. 383) Indeed, Madam, your ladyship is very sparing of your tea: I protest the last I took was no more than water bewitched. - Jonathan Swift Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene. - Edmund Waller, Of Tea
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