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Show An Epic on the Sofa. Tho onl) nrtlcle of furniture that has had an oplc all to Itself Is tho sofa, though, considering tho many houra of Bweet reposo which must havo been Bpent upon It by tired humanity, It deserves to havo had many. Cow-per'fl Cow-per'fl placid poem upon It was In-spired In-spired by his friend, Lady Austen, who suggested tho snfn as a Biibjcct for his mu8o, and out of this beginning grow tho whole structure of "Tho Task." In "Tho Sofa" Cowpor opens with a "historical deduction of seats from thn stool to tho sofa." |