 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...number." ' 4 In this Review Johnson describes himself as ' a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for twenty 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 solaces the midnight, and with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...number." ' ' In this Review Johnson describes himself as ' a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for twenty 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 solaces the midnight, and with... | |
 | 1814 - 640 páginas
...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...solaced the midnight, and with tea welcomed the morning. Boileau wrote a poem on a DESK; Phillips has paid the tribute of his homage to the exhilarating influence... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 572 páginas
...indiscreet indulgence; unlike a celebrated "hardened and shameless tea-drinker," as he describes himself, "whose kettle had scarcely time to cool, who with...the midnight, 'and with tea welcomed the morning. "x His hours of leisure were devoted to no recreations beyond the exercise of walking, and the enjoyment... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 páginas
...expect little justice from the author of this extract, a hardened and shameless Tea-drinker, who has for twenty 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 solaces the midnight, and with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 páginas
...expect little justice from the author of this, extract, a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has for twenty 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 solaces the midnight, and with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 páginas
...expect little justice from the author of this extract, a hardened and shameless Tea-drinker, who has for twenty 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 solaces the midnight, and with... | |
 | John Edmonds Stock - 1811 - 508 páginas
...theColossus of modern literature, who confesses himself to be "a hardened and shameless tea-drinker; who has for twenty 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 solaces the midnight, and with... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1813 - 568 páginas
...Johnson would sometimes drink more than twenty cups at a sitting ; and he tells us himself, that he was a " hardened and shameless teadrinker, who for twenty...the midnight, and with tea welcomed the morning." Nevertheless, according to the same enthusiastic admirer of it, its proper use is to amuse the idle,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 páginas
...expect little justice from the author of this extract, a hardened and shameless Tea-drinker, who has for twenty 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 solaces the midnight, and with... | |
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... a hardened and shameless Tea-drinker, who has for twenty 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 solaces the midnight, and with Tea... 
