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... The Little gleaner - Page 94publié par - 1854Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 pages
...decently, and left him there, As if his rest had been a breathing sleep. THE NEWSPAPER. — Cowper. 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 streaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...playing tricks with nature, giving laws o distant worlds, and trifling in their own. THE NEWSPAPER. 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 steaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,... | |
| William Cowper - 1831 - 192 pages
...all; I burn to set the imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. 3fi Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...knpvAhem tJl ; I bum to set th' imprisoned wraiulers. free, And give them voice and utterance onCc\gain. 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,... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...description whatever. One dead, uniform silence reigned over the whole region. THE NEWSPAPER.— Couper. 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 streaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...a vain attempt Whom God delights in, and in whom he dwells. {From The Task.] THE WINTER'S EVENIXG. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeezed And bored... | |
| Jane Taylor - 1832 - 326 pages
...the seasons, has so admirably consulted the tastes, the duties, and even the restlessness of man. " Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, So let us welcome peaceful evening in." But ere the shutters close, and the curtains fall, may we not... | |
| Luigi Berti - 1964 - 704 pages
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