 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...  Complete Manual of Analysis and Paraphrasing - 第217页作者：William Davidson (B.A.), Joseph Crosby Alcock - 1877 - 232 页全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | William Cowper - 1831 - 192 页
...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, 40 So-let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. Not such his ev'ning, who with shining face Sweats in the... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 页
...curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a streaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So lei us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded... | |
 | William Howitt - 1831 - 596 页
...picture they draw of the winter fire-side. How often have those lines of Cowper been quoted, commencing, Now stir the fire and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtain, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column,... | |
 | R. E. F. Smith, David Christian - 1984 - 426 页
...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,... | |
 | Leonore Davidoff, Catherine Hall - 1987 - 577 页
...countryside. The post arrived, the newspaper was read and the family settled down for their pastimes: Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. The cosy fire, the close fitting shutters keeping out not only wind and rain but the social disorder... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 页
...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,... | |
 | Kit Boey Chow, Ione Kramer - 1990 - 212 页
...of security a cup of tea evokes must be that by William Cowper, an insecure though reputable poet. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...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 页
...Imperial Russia lives in downtown Manhattan! Now stir thejire, and close the shuttersJast, Let Jail the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while 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... | |
 | Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Beth Carver Wees - 1997 - 606 页
...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,... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 页
...and success Perhaps may crown us; but to fly is safe. The Task 1 1 78s) bk. 3 The Garden' I. 686 31 Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sola round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That... | |
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