...person pass at once from an elevated to a common or degrading action, as in Pope : — " Here thon great Anna, whom three realms obey. Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea." Or in the remonstrance to a lady : — " Perbaps it was right to dissemble your love, '•But why did...

...Which from the neighhouring Hampton takes its name; Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms ohey. Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, "...

...accordingly, Pope — a nice observer of the laws of orthcepy — makes it rhyme with obey : — " And thou, great Anna, whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea." — Ep,stle to Queen Annc. ...

...thinking that the legitimate object of the war had * Pope says in the Rape of the Lock — " Where thou, great Anna, whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea," But at these meetings with Lord Soraers she seems to have taken tea and niiiiisrl together. •i Mrs....

...Which from the neighbouring Hampton takes its name ; Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home ; Here thou...Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes — tea." In summing up the points of its early history, we may briefly state that in the thirteenth century...

...Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here thon, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, Dost .sometimes...take— and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymph« resort, Го taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th' instructive hours they...

...Which from the neighbouring Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, IJost sometimes counsel take— and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste...

...TEA (8"> S. i. 611).— I would call the attention of phonetic students who are fond of quoting, — Here thou great Anna ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes Tea, and the like, in proof of their assertion that toy was classical English in Pope's time, to the " Tay,...

...best Foreign Bohee is worth 30*. a pound.' With such Queen Anne refreshed herself at Hampton Court : ' Here thou, great Anna, whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes Counsel take, arid sometimes tea.' When the best tea was at 30s. a pound, the home consumption of tea was about a...

...Which from the neighbouring Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home; Here thou,...obey, Dost sometimes counsel take— and sometimes tet. " Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court ; In various...