 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 Cornhill Magazine - Page 583edited by - 1877Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...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 ev'ning in. Not such his ev'ning, who, with shining face, Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeezed... | |
 | George Merriam - Reader (Elementary) - 1841 - 308 pages
...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 in. This folio of four pages,* happy work, Which not e'en critics criticise ; that holds Inquisitive attention,... | |
 | 1843
...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 In." The needle plying its busy task, the poet's or historian's page, the sprightly lyre, discourse, not... | |
 | John Beaufain Irving - Berkeley Co., South Carolina - 1842 - 104 pages
...sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud 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, ' Christmas, too, merry Christmas, will be here anon, to bring to young and to old its accustomed annual... | |
 | American literature - 1848 - 614 pages
...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 in." The room, shorn of its material honors, and to be demolished in the end, will yet live in history,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...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 in. Not such his evening who, with shining face, Sweats in the crowded theatre, and squeezed And bored... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - England - 1845 - 472 pages
...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 in." On the 25th of September, 1661, Mr. Pepys says, " I did send for a cup of tee, (a China drink) of which... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - 1845 - 908 pages
...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 in. PERSE VERANO E. BY TS ARTHUR. I REMEMBER, when quite a latí, to have heard a very good anecdote told... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 922 pages
...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 in. Not such his evening who, with shining face, Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeezed And bored... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 pages
...sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud 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." On going through the passage we find the house is not so large as it looks. The back portion is an... | |
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