 | 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...loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the caps, Which cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in." " The poet's... | |
 | 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...hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, Which cheer bat not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in." " The poet's or... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...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...theatre, and squeezed And bored with elbow points through both his Outscolds the ranting actor on the stage: [sides, Nor his, who patient stands till his feet... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 pages
...; nor reeks the storm that blows Without ; and rattles on his humble roof. WINTER EVENING. Cowper. 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,... | |
 | 1822 - 468 pages
...the studiousness of attention. The same social poet has well described this fire-side delight also : 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 - 1824 - 446 pages
...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...in the crowded theatre, and squeezed And bored with elbow-points through both bis sides, Outscolds the ranting actor on the stage : Nor his, who patient... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 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...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... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1824 - 446 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...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... | |
 | 1824 - 312 pages
...excellent. — He died of natural decay, BC 361, aged 109. Vatietie*. ATTEMPTED AUTHORSHIP. — "Now strr the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the...bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column." .... Winter Evening .— CowrjjR. Bless my heart, how it rains — provoking ! now I can't go out this... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1824 - 266 pages
...fo-inorrow morning." 16* 186 i CHAPTER XV. A TEA-PARTY'. i .ul fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round '.ml while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up...cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each, Thus let the welcome peaceful evening in. * COWPJJB'S Task. THE approach of the cold and rainy season... | |
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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... 
