… tea drinking was a polite and sociable encounter staged around the tea-table. In media representations (visual culture, poetry, essays) the term ‘tea-table’ increasingly served as a synecdoche for the sociable assembly. As an idea, the … tea drinking was a polite and sociable encounter staged around the tea-table. In media representations (visual culture, poetry, essays) the term ‘tea-table’ increasingly served as a synecdoche for the sociable assembly. As an idea, the …
… and No, ma'am, utter'd softly, show Every five minutes how the minutes go; Each individual, suffering a constraint Poetry may, but colours cannot, paint; And, if in close committee on the sky, Reports it hot or cold, or wet or dry; And …
… ‘New Morality’, originally published in The Anti-Jacobin (n° XXXVI, 9th July 1798), reprinted in William Gifford (ed.), Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin [1799] (London: J. Wright, 1801), p. 233-256. 13 . Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution …