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 People of China: Their History, Court, Religion, Government ... to which ... - 200. oldal1799 - 336 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| 1843
...beautiful scene of "fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness," does Cowper's exquisite poem open to us ! " 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,... | |
| 1848 - 614 oldal
...intimate delight," " fire-side enjoyments," and " home-born happiness," so graphically sketched, " 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,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 oldal
...them all ; I burn to set the imprisoned wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again. d taught them ever to bless and to revere. La Roche sat, his curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 oldal
...them all ; I burn to set the imprisoned wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again. hou bravest of men ! thou conqueror in the field ! but the f curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column,... | |
| 1845 - 480 oldal
...thinking of? Do open your ' Juno's lids' a little wider, and see who are your friends ! EDITORS' TABLE. " Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast— Let fall the curtain— wheel the sofa round." COWPKR. TAKK it, kind reader, take it, reeking from its damp fount, while it is yet warm with life,... | |
| Elizabeth Stone - 1845 - 484 oldal
...fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the buhbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer hut not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in." On the 25th of September,... | |
| Timothy Shay Arthur - 1845 - 908 oldal
...building up in the hearts of Christendom the mightier fabric of the Great Reformation ! WINTER EVENING. 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,... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 oldal
...them all ; I burn to set the imprisoned 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, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column,... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 oldal
...back. The entrance door is nearly in the middle of the front. The celebrated parlour is very visible. " 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,... | |
| 1864 - 726 oldal
...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, and the cups, That... | |
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