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 Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and ... - Página 66de William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 páginas
...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...wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling, and loud hissing urn Throws up a steaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,... | |
| William Cowper - 1831 - 192 páginas
...all; I burn to set the imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. 3fi Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, 40 So-let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. Not such his ev'ning, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded... | |
| William Cowper - 1832 - 602 páginas
...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...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,... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 páginas
...description whatever. One dead, uniform silence reigned over the whole region. THE NEWSPAPER.— Couper. 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 streaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on... | |
| William Howitt - 1831 - 596 páginas
...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, and the cups Which cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Such is the BHITISH... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...a vain attempt Whom God delights in, and in whom he dwells. {From The Task.] THE WINTER'S EVENIXG. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded... | |
| Jane Taylor - 1832 - 326 páginas
...the seasons, has so admirably consulted the tastes, the duties, and even the restlessness of man. " Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, So let us welcome peaceful evening in." But ere the shutters close, and the curtains fall, may we not... | |
| James Holman - 1834 - 408 páginas
...with good dinners on the road, yet the morning and evening repasts were most grateful to me — " when the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy...cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each." It is true that, on these occasions, along with the steamy column of the poet's urn, I had the more... | |
| 1834 - 440 páginas
...beneath romantic caves and canopies. 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, and the cups Which cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Such is the winter... | |
| 1834 - 604 páginas
...shutters frut, Let fall the curtains, wheel the »ofa 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 as welcome peaceful evening in." How different, however, is the lot of foreign missionaries.... | |
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