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" 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... "
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry - Page 499
by Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1016 pages
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The Seasons of Life; with an Introduction on the Creation, and Primeval ...

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,...
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The Biblical repositor (and quarterly observer) [afterw.] The American ...

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, wait 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...
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A Literary History of England

Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 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 usual reaction...
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Bread and Salt: A Social and Economic History of Food and Drink in Russia

R. E. F. Smith, David Christian - 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...
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Words that Taste Good

Bill Moore - 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,...
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All the Tea in China

Kit Boey Chow, Ione Kramer - 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...
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All the Tea in China: Fascinating Traditions, Incredible Edibles

Yvonne Wrightman - 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...
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Saint Ronan's Well

Walter Scott - 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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English, Irish, & Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art ...

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Beth Carver Wees - 1997 - 606 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.73 NOTES 1. The literature on coffee and tea is considerable. For in-depth overviews, see...
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Language @t work: language learning, discourse and translation studies in ...

2005 - 656 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, 1785, 1968:466) Cowper continues accentuating this pleasant evening with what...
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