 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 Etonian - Page 241edited by - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1839 - 356 pages
...luxury of- comfort which the Christian poet must often have felt before he could so sweetly have sung, Now stir the fire and close the shutters fast, Let...hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Still evening is... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1839 - 1050 pages
...snatch a comfort from the big flakes that are fleecing over the deadened colors of the Autumn, — " Let fall the curtains ; wheel the sofa round, And...hissing urn Throws up a steamy column ; and the cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in!"' And, TASK in... | |
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pages
...characteristically invites all to this scene of domestic comfort. " Now stir the lire, and close the shutters last, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And,...hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in." Vain, idle, and... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...awhile his torpid touch delays, And all is joy and piety and praise. CBADBK. THE EVENING NEWSPAPER. 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,... | |
 | William Henry De Merle - 1839 - 332 pages
...GLENLONELY. CHAPTER XI. TEA AND CHIT-CHAT. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fell the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the...hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. COWPBR. WE have... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1839 - 194 pages
...lives to have attained. How peculiar to himself is the picture of happiness which his fancy draws ! — 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,... | |
 | George Gabriel Sigmond - 1839 - 160 pages
...vain attempts to imitate, and man has only to reap the benefits which she has planted for him. . _. " 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,... | |
 | 1839 - 536 pages
...deadened colors of the Autumn, — " Let fall the curtains ; wheel the sofa round, And while the babbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column ; and the cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on eacn, So let us welcome peaceful evening in!" And, TASK in hand,... | |
 | 1839 - 658 pages
...social relations connected with tea-drinking the Doctor is eloquent, and borrows from the poets : — " 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 stenrny column,... | |
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