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 streamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome... Poems ...di William Cowper - 1885 - 334 pagineVisualizzazione estratti - Informazioni su questo libro
| Charles Samuel Stewart - 1828 - 340 pagine
...luxury of comfort, which the Christian poet must often have felt, before be could so sweetly have sung, 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,... | |
| Charles Samuel Stewart - 1828 - 428 pagine
...luxury of comfort, which the Christian poet must often have felt, before he could so sweetly have sung, 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,... | |
| Charles Samuel Stewart - 1828 - 458 pagine
...luxury of comfort, which the Christian poet must often have felt, before he could so sweetly have sung, 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,... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pagine
...wine and their victuals these connadgeon-lubbards Lock up from my sight, in cellars and cupboard*. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round. And, white -the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not... | |
| George Croly - 1831 - 436 pagine
...long to know them allI burn to set the imprisoned wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again Now stir the fire, and close the shutters...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,... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pagine
...description whatever. One dead, uniform silence reigned over the whole region. THE NEWSPAPER.—Covpcr. 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 streaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on... | |
| William Howitt - 1831 - 596 pagine
...picture they draw of the winter fire-side. How often have those lines of Cowper been quoted, commencing, Now stir the fire and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtain, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column,... | |
| Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - 1832 - 538 pagine
...time of tapers and tea, which the same social poi has pictured with unsurpassed truth and feeling. " Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissfng urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cupa That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each,... | |
| Jane Taylor - 1832 - 326 pagine
...the seasons, has so admirably consulted the tastes, the duties, and even the restlessness of man. " Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, So let us welcome peaceful evening in." But ere the shutters close, and the curtains fall, may we not... | |
| Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - 1832 - 546 pagine
...is a disciple of the poet of Olney. Has he not ju " 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,... | |
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