 Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening...  The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral, & philosophical ... - Page 851834Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1836 - 206 pages
...the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissmg urn Throws up a streamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. Not such his ev'ning, who with shinmg face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeez'd... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pages
...shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, 40 So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 pages
...shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That...inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. (11. 25-41) Here is quiet and gentle curiosity— no burst of eloquence. Such is Cowper's... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1888 - 1026 pages
...shutters fast, Let fall the eurtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing um Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not iuebriate, wait on each, So let us vvelcome peaceful everiing in. (IV, 36 ff.) Welch ein lebendiges,... | |
 | R. E. F. Smith, David Christian - History - 1984 - 426 pages
...shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups. That...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Cowper, The Task, book IV, I.34 (1783) These hissing urns were, of course, often of silver or silver... | |
 | Bill Moore - Cooking - 1987 - 180 pages
...shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. WILLIAM COWPER Did you ever wonder where the description cups, that cheer, but not inebriate, came... | |
 | Kit Boey Chow, Ione Kramer - Cooking - 1990 - 212 pages
...close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round; And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups,...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Englands infatuation with the beverage in the first half of the eighteenth century was so great that... | |
 | Yvonne Wrightman - Cooking - 1994 - 68 pages
...close the shuttersJast, Let Jail the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let's welcome peaceful ev'ning in. William Cowper (1731-1800) The Task, IV Tea tasting was and is still... | |
 | Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Beth Carver Wees - Orfèvrerie (Objets) - 1997 - 606 pages
...shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer...inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.73 NOTES 1. The literature on coffee and tea is considerable. For in-depth overviews, see Ukers... | |
 | Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 656 pages
...shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That...wait on each So let us welcome peaceful evening in. (Cowper, 1785, 1968:466) Cowper continues accentuating this pleasant evening with what he sees as a... | |
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