Tea. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Tea


Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid;—thou female tongue—running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate. Colley Cibber.—The Lady’s Last Stake, Act I. Scene 1.	1
The Muse’s friend, tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene, Fit on her birth-day to salute the Queen. Waller.—Of Tea, from last lines.	2
The ship from Ceylon, Inde, or far Cathay, unloads for him the fragrant produce of each trip. Byron.—Don Juan, Canto XII. St. 9.	3
And sip with nymphs their elemental tea. Pope.—Rape of the Lock, Canto I. Line 62.	4
Te veniente die, te decedente canebat. Virgil.—Georgics, Book IV. Line 466.	5
[Translated.—“Thee did he sing as day approached, thee as it departed.” A punster has thus rendered it:— “At morning he sang the praises of tea, The praises of tea too at ev’ning sang he.” A facetious Cantab is said to have placed upon his tea-caddy the Latin words, Tu Doces, (i.e., Thou teachest,) rendering the phrase into a punning motto, Thou tea-chest.—Riley’s Dict. Class. Quot. 456.]	6