 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...  Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle - Pàgina 4001814Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 pàgines
...The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. — Milton. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round. — Cowper. Thou unrelenting Post! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters sure... | |
 | 1864 - 726 pàgines
...short days and long nights, with its snow and frost, its holidays, and its Christmas family-gatherings. "Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast ; Let fall the curtain! ; wheel the aof* round ; And, while the bubbling and loudhissing urn Throws up a steamy column,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pàgines
...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...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 Mather Austin - 1847 - 414 pàgines
...have often admired the natural simplicity and beauty of Cowper's lines in his "Winter Evening" — " Now stir the fire and close the shutters fast, Let...wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing ura Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,... | |
 | 1851 - 790 pàgines
...recitals. Now, as erst, long years agone, was wont to be done in a poet's home at Olney, we will " Stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,"* and gather a ring of happy faces around the genial hearth. You, little girls, may bring your knitting,... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 pàgines
...we gathered around the social board, " Now, " said my grandfather, in the words of the poet, — " '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 cup Which cheers but not inebriates, waits on each... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pàgines
...intimate delight," " fire-sido enjoyments," and " home-born happiness," so graphically (sketched, "Xowstir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the...curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn 4 Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not 'inebriate, wait on each,... | |
 | Jane Vaughan Pinkney, lady Granard (fict. name.) - 1848 - 354 pàgines
...been useful if curbed within their proper limits, and kept under the control of judgment. CHAPTER XV. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubhling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate,... | |
 | John William Lester - 1848 - 112 pàgines
...world, with spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks." Day darkens into eve : — Now etir the fire and close the shutters fast, Let fall the...wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer hut not inebriate, wait on each,... | |
 | 1848 - 460 pàgines
...my keen hreath fauned her cheek, she recalled to mind, and put in practice the poet's words: " Now close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round," &c. Even the invalid, who, you might suppose, with unstrung nerves and delicate frame, would most dread... | |
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