 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...  Literary Leaves - Page 280by David Lester Richardson - 1840Full view - About this book
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...gladness; and when the shades of evening have fallen, the gaiety of the social circle chases its gloom, "Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast. Let...wheel the sofa round : And while the bubbling and luud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1819 - 306 pages
...shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and the loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That...inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. Not such his ev'ning, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeez'd... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 pages
...them all ; I burn to set th' imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance 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 Cowper - 1869 - 306 pages
...them all I burn to set th' imprisoned wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast Let...sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing inn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups. bespeaks Salvation, on i.er way" [ T THE HSZ. 121 1 hat... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 278 pages
...them all ; I burn to set th' imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance 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 Cowper - 1821 - 556 pages
...them all ; I burn to set th' imprisoned 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,... | |
 | 1821 - 410 pages
...two passages from a poet who seems to have felt the true pleasures of these social moments : — " 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 caps, Which cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,... | |
 | 1821 - 420 pages
...round ; And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, Which cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in." " The poet's or historian's page by one Made vocal for the amusement of the rest; The sprightly lyre,... | |
 | 1820 - 696 pages
...have felt the true pleasures of these social moments : — " Now stir the fire, and close the shatters 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, Which cheer bat not inebriate, wait on each,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - 246 pages
...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 inehriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in ; Not such his evening, who with shining... | |
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