 | R. E. F. Smith, David Christian - 1984 - 426 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | 2005 - 656 páginas
...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 he sees as a... | |
 | Bharat Tandon - 2003 - 319 páginas
...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. This folio of four pages, happy work! Which not ev'n critics criticise, that holds Inquisitive attention... | |
 | William Hone - 2003 - 476 páginas
...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.5 This done, and the bard surrounded with means of enjoyment, he directs his sole attention... | |
 | William Cowper - 2003 - 124 páginas
...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 ev'ning in. Not such his ev'ning, who with shining face Sweats in the... | |
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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... 
