| 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 - 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.... | |
| 1834 - 440 páginas
...curves, resembling the scroll's of Ionic capitals, and showing 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,... | |
| 1834 - 426 páginas
...observing to his friends, " you both look hungry ?" and when the waiter made his appearance exclaimed, " now stir the fire and close the shutters fast — let fall the curtain — wheel the sofa round — now let us weleome peaceful evening in." " Peaceful ! do you call... | |
| William Hone - 1835 - 924 páginas
...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...cups, That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. This done, and the bard surrounded with means of enjoyment,... | |
| 1835 - 802 páginas
...freedom and every social good. Gottiryen, Xov. 10th, 1834. T. A CHAPTER FOR CHILDREN. THE LOCUSTS. Now stir the fire and close the shutters fast, Let...curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing um Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 620 páginas
...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,... | |
| Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 páginas
...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...cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such is evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded... | |
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