 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...  History of English Literature - Page 246by Hippolyte Taine - 1871Full view - About this book
 | William Howitt - Almanacs, English - 1831 - 596 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. Such is the BHITISH FIRE-SIDE ! and we love to hear our writers speaking of its pleasures in strains... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a streaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So lei us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loudhissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer...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... | |
 | Fashion - 1832 - 240 pages
...usual. "——Wliile the bubbling nod loud-hissing Urn , rrhrows up a steamy column, and the cops, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each ; So let us welcome peaceful EVENING in." — Cmcpcr. Miss B. Bless me, Miss S ! what a tremendous budget you have laid on the table. Well, let's... | |
 | 1834 - 604 pages
...shutters frut, Let fall the curtains, wheel the »ofa 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 as welcome peaceful evening in." How different, however, is the lot of foreign missionaries. " Here... | |
 | James Holman - 1834 - 408 pages
...the morning and evening repasts were most grateful to me — " when the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each." It is true that, on these occasions, along with the steamy column of the poet's urn, I had the more... | |
 | 1834 - 440 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. Such is the winter fire-side—and we lore to hear our writers speaking of its pleasures in strains... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1835 - 924 pages
...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,...inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. This done, and the bard surrounded with means of enjoyment, he directs his sole attention... | |
 | England - 1835 - 802 pages
...shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing um Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So lot us welcome peaceful evening in. COWPER. THUS the winter evenings were always ushered and welcomed... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pages
...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...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... | |
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