 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 - Сторінка 139автори: William Cowper - 1788Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 стор.
...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... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1839 - 354 стор.
...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,... | |
 | George Gabriel Sigmond - 1839 - 160 стор.
...the curtain, 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." Thus sang one of our most admired poets, who was feelingly alive to the charms of social life; but,... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 стор.
...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 - 1984 - 426 стор.
...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 - 1987 - 180 стор.
...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 - 1990 - 212 стор.
...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 - 1994 - 68 стор.
...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 - 1995 - 538 стор.
...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... | |
 | Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Beth Carver Wees - 1997 - 606 стор.
...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 Ukers... | |
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