 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...  Poems, - Страница 74написао/ла William Cowper - 1817Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | 1822 - 468 страница
...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...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,... | |
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...sober sense, and the treasured sweets of literature. Bat are we in a smaller, graver party ? then, " Stir the fire and close the shutters fast, Let fall...the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bub ling and loud hissing urn Throws up a -steaming column, and the cups. That cheer, bat not inebriate,... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1824 - 446 страница
...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...the curtains, 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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 страница
...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...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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 страница
...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...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,... | |
 | J. R - 1824 - 350 страница
...persevering to the end in what you esteem your duty. And now," he added, playfully quoting the poet, ' 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, Let us welcome peaceful evening in." " At... | |
 | 1824 - 312 страница
...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 curtains, wheel the sofa round. And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column." .... Winter Evening .— CowrjjR. Bless my... | |
 | 1825 - 426 страница
...sale, Evenings in New England ; intended for 'uvenile Amusement and Instruction. By an American Lady. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws op a steamy column, and the cups. That cheer, but not inebriate,... | |
 | 1826 - 410 страница
...of comfort, which the Christian's poet must often have felt, before he could so sweetly have sung, Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cup» That cheer but not inebriate,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 242 страница
...all ; I burn to set th' imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. 35 Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...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,... | |
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