 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 - Pagina 308geredigeerd door - 1824Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Cornelius Webbe - 1828 - 468 pagina’s
...and studiousness of attention. The same social poet has well described this fire-side delight:— ' 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,... | |
 | 1829 - 506 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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,... | |
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