 | William Hone - 1837 - 922 pages
...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 ft steamy column, and the cups. That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each.... | |
 | William Hone - 1838 - 890 pages
...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 urm Throws up a steamy column, and the cups. That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each.... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1839 - 356 pages
...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...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Still evening is the pleasantest portion of the day. Our yard is no longer crowded by noisy natives,... | |
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pages
...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,...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in." Vain, idle, and offensive as are the mean intrigues of the world, the winter's evening, if profitably... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1839 - 1050 pages
...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...on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in!"' And, TASK in hand, let us read away the hours, with" tear and a blessing for the memory of its author.... | |
 | William Henry De Merle - 1839 - 332 pages
...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...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. COWPBR. WE have said that Saltenham was once the city of villas: in those days it was probably wise... | |
 | George Gabriel Sigmond - 1839 - 160 pages
...shutters fast; Let fall the curtain, wheel the sofa round ;. And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer,...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in." Thus sang one of our most admired poets, who was feelingly alive to the charms of social life; but,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1839 - 194 pages
...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,... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 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...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,... | |
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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... 
