...Shaws-Castle, and you shall hear of my speed in wooing for you to-morrow morning.' CHAPTER XXXIV A TEA-PARTY Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round; And while the bubbling and loud kissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each, Thus...

...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...

...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 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,...

...intelligence, of which he is ignorant, why should it be "To him indifferent whether grief or joy?" 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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steady column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,...

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...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...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...

...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 sofa round, and, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn throws up a skinny column . . . so let us welcome peaceful evening in. — William...