 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
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 страница
...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...the curtains, 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,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 страница
...them all ; I burn to set th' iinprison'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,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 страница
...decently, and left him there, As if his rest had been a breathing sleep. THE NEWSPAPER. — Cowper. 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 streaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 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,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 страница
...description whatever. One dead, uniform silence reigned over the whole region. THE NEWSPAPER.— Couper. 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 streaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 страница
...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...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 Howitt - 1831 - 596 страница
...picture they draw of the winter fire-side. How often have those lines of 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,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 страница
...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...the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loudhissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate,... | |
 | Jane Taylor - 1832 - 326 страница
...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... | |
 | 1834 - 440 страница
...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,... | |
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