 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...  Poems, - Page 119by William Cowper - 1803 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Hawaii - 1839 - 354 pages
...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 in. Still evening is the pleasantest portion of the day. Our yard is no longer crowded by noisy natives,... | |
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pages
...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 in." Vain, idle, and offensive as are the mean intrigues of the world, the winter's evening, if profitably... | |
 | Books - 1839 - 658 pages
...the curtain, wheel the sofa round ; And while the bubbling, and loud-hissing urn Throws up a stenrny column, and the cups That cheer, but not inebriate,...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in." Thus sang one of our most admired poets, who was feelingly alive to the charms of social life ; but,... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1839 - 1050 pages
...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,...on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in!"' And, TASK in hand, let us read away the hours, with" tear and a blessing for the memory of its author.... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 pages
...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 ev'ning in. (11. 25-41) Here is quiet and gentle curiosity— no burst of eloquence. Such is Cowper's... | |
 | R. E. F. Smith, David Christian - History - 1984 - 426 pages
...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 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
...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 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
...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 in. Englands infatuation with the beverage in the first half of the eighteenth century was so great that... | |
 | Yvonne Wrightman - Cooking - 1994 - 68 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Literary Collections - 1995 - 538 pages
...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, Thus let us welcome peaceful evening in. COWPER'S Task THE APPROACH of the cold and rainy season had... | |
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