 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...  Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle - Seite 4001814Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1855 - 626 Seiten
...science, and commerce, or for the not less needful purposes of home con. fort and healthful enjoyment. ' 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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 298 Seiten
...them all ; 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...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,... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - 1902 - 564 Seiten
...they do not quarrel with the sunbeams for the same reason." The description of the winter evening — Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, So let us welcome peaceful evening in — (Book iv. lines 35-41) finds its echo in a letter to Hill,... | |
 | Constance Hill - 1902 - 348 Seiten
...probably, curtains hung on runner cords such as Cowper alludes to in the " Task " when he exclaims : " Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast. Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round. So let us welcome peaceful evening in." Other details we can also imagine — the stiffbacked chairs... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - 1903 - 692 Seiten
...them all : 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...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,... | |
 | Montague Howard - 1903 - 452 Seiten
...suggested the shape and gave it the name of urn. Cowper, in "The Task," published in 1783, writes : " 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,... | |
 | 1903 - 118 Seiten
...When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And school for the day is dismissed." Here are the lines : " Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast ; Let fall the curtains ; wheel the iofa round ; And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamly column, and the cups That... | |
 | Emily Noyes Vanderpoel - 1903 - 628 Seiten
...from the shackles of folly & Fashion. We love after the labor of the day " To stir the fire and elose the shutters fast, " Let fall the Curtains, wheel the Sofa round, " And, while the bubbling & loud hissing urn " Throws up a steamy column, and the Cups " That cheer but not inebriate, wait on... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1904 - 324 Seiten
...them all : 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...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,... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 930 Seiten
...skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore. The Traveller. O. GOLDSMITH. 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,... | |
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