 | Bharat Tandon - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 319 pages
...comfortably composed nest from which news of the bustling world outside can be contemplated at leisure ('Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,/ Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round'). 118 Priestman writes of this double bind in the poem: 'the ideal of ease, once attained, immediately... | |
 | Bharat Tandon - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 320 pages
...comfortably composed nest from which news of the bustling world outside can be contemplated at leisure ('Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,/ Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round').118 Priestman writes of this double bind in the poem: 'the ideal of ease, once attained, immediately... | |
 | Dolores Snyder - Cooking - 2004 - 220 pages
...Queen Elizabeth. A recent new one is Queen Catherine Blend for Catherine of Braganza. Tea Equipage "Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall...while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steady column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful... | |
 | Randy Florke, Nancy Jane Becker - Architecture - 2005 - 200 pages
...Roc M•^•^•••••^•^•^•^•^••••i^•••••••-^•^•M'^^i re, and close the shutters fast, let fall the curtains,...while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn throws up a skinny column . . . so let us welcome peaceful evening in. —William Cowper, The Task Pale hues and... | |
 | Claudia Kinmonth - Art - 2006 - 338 pages
...quotes from William Cowper's poem of 1785, 'The Task', from which the painting's title was derived: Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall...bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each So let us weleome peaceful ev'ning in. Although... | |
 | Randy Florke, Nancy J. Becker - Decoration and ornament, Rustic - 2006 - 214 pages
...creates a lovely still life. I • i Rooms for LingeringLiving Rooms V Now stir the fire, and dose the shutters fast, let fall the curtains, wheel the...while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn throws up a skinny column . . . so let us welcome peaceful evening in. — William Cowper, The Task •4 Pale hues... | |
 | Mary Lou Heiss, Robert J. Heiss - Cooking - 2007 - 440 pages
...cup that is well made and shows off the attributes of the tea you sought out in the marketplace. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall...bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. — WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800)... | |
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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... 
