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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... "
The Poems of William Cowper - Page 300
by William Cowper - 1905 - 741 pages
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Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Elegant Extracts ..., Volume 1

Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...oily eloquence in soft Meanders lubricate the course they take. COWPER. 12. N — The grand debate, The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and...wit, And the loud laugh — I long to know them all. COWPER. 13. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. BUTLER'S Hudibras....
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A Voice to the Married: Being a Compendium of Social, Moral, and Religious ...

John Mather Austin - Marriage - 1847 - 414 pages
...have often admired the natural simplicity and beauty of Cowper's lines in his "Winter Evening" — " Now stir the fire and close the shutters fast, Let...sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing ura Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome...
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A father's present to his children, to assist them in attaining a knowledge ...

Benjamin Isaac - 1847 - 74 pages
...are continued throughout the present month, which is peculiarly characterized by these operations. " Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...wheel the sofa round ; And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steam column, and the cups Which cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each,—...
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A Literary History of England

Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 pages
...wear her plum'd And jewell'd turban with a smile of peace, Or do we grind her still? The grand debate, The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and...loud laugh — I long to know them all; I burn to set th' imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. Now stir the fire, and...
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Bread and Salt: A Social and Economic History of Food and Drink in Russia

R. E. F. Smith, David Christian - History - 1984 - 426 pages
...held a place on the sideboard of the wealthier classes from about the middle of the 18th century'.96 Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...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,...
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Words that Taste Good

Bill Moore - Cooking - 1987 - 180 pages
...then in secret sin. But for love of sheer domesticity, look at this picture of a cosy evening at home: Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...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,...
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English, Irish, & Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art ...

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Beth Carver Wees - Orfèvrerie (Objets) - 1997 - 606 pages
...clearly lost out to the stimulating but calming and comforting effects of the beverage and its rituals: Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...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,...
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Language @t work: language learning, discourse and translation studies in ...

Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 656 pages
...once in the country he was glad of his cozy spot where he coined the oft-quoted lines that follow: Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...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...
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William Cowper: Selected Poems

William Cowper - Literary Collections - 2003 - 124 pages
...Snore to the murmurs of th' Atlantic wave? Is India free? and does she wear her plum'd And Jewell 'd turban with a smile of peace, Or do we grind her still?...loud laugh — I long to know them all; I burn to set th' imprison 'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. Now stir the fire, and...
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Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation

Bharat Tandon - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 319 pages
...waist, and frozen locks,/ News from all nations lumb'ring at his back' 161 ), and consumed in comfort: Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...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,...
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