The berries crackle, and the mill turns round; On shining altars of japan they raise The silver lamp ; the fiery spirits blaze : From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide, While China's earth receives the smoking tide: At once they gratify their scent... Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson - Page 169edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
| Anne Thackeray Ritchie - Children's stories, English - 1874 - 356 pages
...ashes were the order of the day. FIVE O'CLOCK TEA. For lo ! the board with cups and spoons is crowned ! On shining Altars of Japan they raise The silver lamp...taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast. RAPE OF THE LOCK. FIVE o'clock tea is rarely good. It is either strongly flavoured with that peculiar... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...curs'd for ever this victorious day. For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crown'd, The berrie* BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND. BLOW, blow, thou winter...not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is Straight hover round the fair her airy band ; Some, as she sipp'd, the fuming liquor fann'd. Some o'er... | |
| Anne Thackeray Ritchie - 1876 - 412 pages
...ashes were the order of the day. FIVE O'CLOCK TEA. For lo ! the board with cups and spoons is crowned ! On shining Altars of Japan they raise The silver lamp...taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast. KAPE OF THE LOCK. FIVE o'clock tea is rarely good. It is either strongly flavoured with that peculiar... | |
| Anne Thackeray Ritchie - English essays - 1877 - 316 pages
...promise must be kneaded with toil. FIVE O'CLOCK TEA. For lol the board with cups and spoons is crowned! On shining Altars of Japan they raise The silver lamp;...taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast. RAPE OF THE LOCK. FIVE o'clock tea is rarely good. It is either strongly flavoured with that peculiar... | |
| Henry Noble Day - English literature - 1877 - 564 pages
...honours shall be snatch'd away And curs'd for ever this victorious day. For lo I the board with cups and spoons is crown'd, ** The berries crackle, and the...grateful liquors glide, While China's earth receives the smoaking tyde: "* At once they gratify their scent and taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repaste.... | |
| William Francis Collier - American literature - 1877 - 560 pages
...shining altars of Japan they raise The silTer lamp ; the fiery spirits blaze : Prom silver spouts tJie grateful liquors glide, While China's earth receives...taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast. | Straight hover round the feir her airy band : Some, as she sipped, the fuming liquor fanned ; Some... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...this victorious day. THE RAPE OF THE LOCK. 411 For lo ! the board with cnpe and spoons is crowned ; The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ; On...taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast. Straight hover round the fair her airy band : ßome, as she sipped, the fuming liquor fanned ; Some... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1879 - 570 pages
...turns round; On shining Altars of Japan they raise The silver lamp; the fiery spirits blaze: P'rom silver spouts the grateful liquors glide, While China's...taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast. Straight hover round the Fair her airy band; Some, as she sipp'd, the fuming liquor fann'd, Some o'er... | |
| Robert Davies - York (England) - 1880 - 328 pages
...counsel take—and sometimes tea. He thus elaborately introduces— For lo ! the board with cups and spoons is crown'd, The berries crackle, and the mill...taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast. Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see thro' all things with his half-shut eyes. The heroine... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...honours shall be snatch'd away, And curs'd for ever this victorious day. For lo ! the board with cups and spoons is crown'd, The berries crackle, and the mill...taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast. Straight hover round the fair her airy band ; Some, as she sipp'd, the fuming liquor fann'd, Some o'er... | |
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