 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
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1839 - 356 Seiten
...luxury of- comfort which the Christian poet must often have felt before he could so sweetly have sung, 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. Still evening is... | |
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 Seiten
...characteristically invites all to this scene of domestic comfort. " Now stir the lire, and close the shutters last, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And,...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." Vain, idle, and... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1839 - 1050 Seiten
...snatch a comfort from the big flakes that are fleecing over the deadened colors of the Autumn, — " Let fall the curtains ; wheel the sofa round, And...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!"' And, TASK in... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 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...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 Henry De Merle - 1839 - 332 Seiten
...GLENLONELY. CHAPTER XI. TEA AND CHIT-CHAT. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fell the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the...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. COWPBR. WE have... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 Seiten
...awhile his torpid touch delays, And all is joy and piety and praise. CBADBK. THE EVENING NEWSPAPER. 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,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1839 - 194 Seiten
...lives to have attained. How peculiar to himself is the picture of happiness which his fancy draws ! — 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,... | |
 | 1839 - 658 Seiten
...social relations connected with tea-drinking the Doctor is eloquent, and borrows from the poets : — " 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 stenrny column,... | |
 | George Gabriel Sigmond - 1839 - 160 Seiten
...vain attempts to imitate, and man has only to reap the benefits which she has planted for him. . _. " 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,... | |
 | 1839 - 536 Seiten
...deadened colors of the Autumn, — " Let fall the curtains ; wheel the sofa round, And while the babbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column ; and the cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on eacn, So let us welcome peaceful evening in!" And, TASK in hand,... | |
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