Wordsworth was a lover of tea, and he sweetened his tea beyond the taste of ordinary mortals. Shelly also was a lover of tea. Kant drank tea habitually for breakfast. Motley used either tea or coffee for breakfast, as fancy prompted. William Howitt found great refreshment in both tea and coffee, but he wrote that on his great pedestrian journeys, ' Tea would always in a manner almost miraculous banish all my fatigue, and diffuse through my whole frame comfort and exhilaration without any subsequent evil effect.
Tea is a wonderful refresher and reviver.
Harriet Martineau dearly loved her cup of tea. An amiable weakness for Afternoon Tea in the course of his daily official duties which was manifested by the late Hon. Picking stalks out of tea. A Ballad of Oolong. By John Paul Bocock.