 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 Etonian - Seite 2411821Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1829 - 506 Seiten
...gentle eye upon this wretch," but, having obtained the newspaper, determines to enjoy himself, and cries 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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 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...hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 Seiten
...them all ; I burn to set th' iinprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. Not such his ev'ning,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...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...while the bubbling, and loud hissing urn Throws up a steaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 Seiten
...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...while the bubbling, and loud hissing urn Throws up a streaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 306 Seiten
...half-shut eyes.' Nor can ECP's presence be spared from that most pleasurable of all circles, where ' The bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups Which cheer but nut inebriate, wait on each.' We have two letters before us, which take this more enlarged view of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 Seiten
...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...hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in ; Not such his evening,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 Seiten
...description whatever. One dead, uniform silence reigned over the whole region. THE NEWSPAPER.— Couper. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a streaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful... | |
 | William Howitt - 1831 - 596 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loudhissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,... | |
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