I burn to set the imprison'd wranglers free,
And give them voice and utterance once again.
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
So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
-- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 34
And give them voice and utterance once again.
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
So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
-- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 34
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- O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
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The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line... - While fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit,
and is still at home. -- William Cowper (1731-1800)... - All learned, and all drunk!
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
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The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line... - Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
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The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line... - In indolent vacuity of thought.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
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The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line... - The Frenchman's darling.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
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The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line... - Which not even critics criticise.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
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The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line... - What is it but a map of busy life,
Its fluctuations,
and its vast concerns? -- William Cowper (1731-1800)... - And Katerfelto, with his hair on end
At his own wonders,
wondering for his bread. 'T is pleasant, through the...
