For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned, 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 Quarterly Review - Page 4011877Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| 1871 - 808 pages
...excuse for social intercourse : its first drinkers in England knew how to drink it. Pope says : — " For, lo ! the board with cups and spoons is crowned, The berries crackle and the mill goes round : On shining altars of Japan they raise 1'he silver lamp ; the fiery spirits blaze ; Krom... | |
| Anna Bache - 1853 - 250 pages
...coffee-pot to match your tea-urn," said Mrs. Howell, "furnished by no less a poet than Alexander Pope." For, lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned, The berries crackle, and the mill turns round. From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide, And China's earth receives the smoking tide. At once... | |
| English language - 1861 - 312 pages
...families. The main incident is described as taking place at the tea-table. THE SEVERING OF THE LOCK. For lo ! the board with cups and spoons is crowned, 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... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 pages
...stiff and puerile rendering of the Emperor Adrian's last trembling sigh. FROM "THE RAPE OF THE LOCK." For lo ! the board with cups and spoons is crowned, 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... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...stiff and puerile rendering of the Emperor Adrian's last trembling sigh. FROM "THE RAPE OF THE LOCK." For lo ! the board with cups and spoons is crowned, 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... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...allow ; And what Timotheus was, is Dryden now. THE SEVERING OF THE LOCK. From The Rape of the Lock. For lo ! the board with cups and spoons is crowned, 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... | |
| Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 pages
..." favorite lock" was stolen in spite of them all. I must give you the story of that daring theft : "For lo ! the board with cups and spoons is crowned, The berries crackle, and the mill turns round : On shining altar? of Japan they raise The silver lamp ; the fiery spirits blaze : From silver spouts... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...too soon elate, Sudden these honors shall be snatched away, And cursed forever this victorious day. For, lo ! the board with cups and spoons is crowned, 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... | |
| Acrostics - 1871 - 312 pages
..." Hath put a spirit of youth in everything." 2. " I see no reason if I wear this rose." 3. "Forlo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned, The berries crackle and the mill goes round." 4. I look in vain To unite you twain, You stand side by side And so must abide. -5. "Like... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1871 - 532 pages
...parts, and not altogether unknown in the taverns of London. There was likewise a sideboard of coffee, which the dean roasted with his own hands in an engine for the purpose, his landlady attending all the while that office was performing. He talked of politics... | |
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