 | 1821 - 410 pages
...two passages from a poet who seems to have felt the true pleasures of these social moments : — " Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...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... | |
 | English essays - 1822 - 468 pages
...the studiousness of attention. The same social poet has well described this fire-side delight also : 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 Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...; nor reeks the storm that blows Without ; and rattles on his humble roof. WINTER EVENING. Cowper. 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,... | |
 | 206 pages
...sober sense, and the treasured sweets of literature. Bat are we in a smaller, graver party ? then, " Stir the fire and close the shutters fast, Let fall...the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bub ling and loud hissing urn Throws up a -steaming column, and the cups. That cheer, bat not inebriate,... | |
 | 1824 - 312 pages
...excellent. — He died of natural decay, BC 361, aged 109. Vatietie*. ATTEMPTED AUTHORSHIP. — "Now strr the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the...bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column." .... Winter Evening .— CowrjjR. Bless my heart, how it rains — provoking ! now I can't go out this... | |
 | J. R - 1824 - 350 pages
...persevering to the end in what you esteem your duty. And now," he added, playfully quoting the poet, ' Stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall...curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, Let us welcome peaceful evening in." " At the conclusion... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...the wisdom, and the wit, And the loud laugh— I long to know them all ; I bum to set th' imprison'd wranglers free. And give them voice and utterance...again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Jx!t fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up... | |
 | 1824 - 446 pages
...true pleasures of these social moments : — " Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, !,et fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round ; And, while the bubbling and loud hissing ura Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, Which cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...sale, Evenings in New England ; intended for 'uvenile Amusement and Instruction. By an American Lady. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws op a steamy column, and the cups. That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each;... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1826 - 410 pages
...of comfort, which the Christian's poet must often have felt, before he could so sweetly have sung, Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cup» That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let u» welcome peaceful eycnipg rn , Шб. The... | |
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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... 
