 | 1821 - 420 pages
...have felt the true pleasures of these social moments : — " Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round...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." " The poet's or... | |
 | 1820 - 696 pages
...have felt the true pleasures of these social moments : — " Now stir the fire, and close the shatters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round...hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, Which cheer bat not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in." " The poet's or... | |
 | 1821 - 410 pages
...have felt the true pleasures of these social moments : — " Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round...loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the caps, Which cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in." " The poet's... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and squeezed And bored with... | |
 | English essays - 1822 - 468 pages
...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...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. This winter-pleasure being satisfactorily enjoyed, then there are the after-pleasures of continued... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...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 Winter Evening in. Hpw calm is my recess ! and how the frost Raging abroad, and the rough wind, endear... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and squeezed And bored with... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,...inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. Not such his ev'ning, who, with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and squeez'd... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - English essays - 1824 - 446 pages
...have felt the true pleasures of these social moments : — " Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round...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." " The poet's or... | |
 | Walter Scott - Country life - 1824 - 266 pages
...fo-inorrow morning." 16* 186 i CHAPTER XV. A TEA-PARTY'. i .ul fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round '.ml while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up...cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each, Thus let the welcome peaceful evening in. * COWPJJB'S Task. THE approach of the cold and rainy season... | |
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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... 
