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...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...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...

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...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...

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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...That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each So let us weleome peaceful ev'ning in. Although the poem indicates the trappings of a middle-class home, the...