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... Poems, - Page 74by William Cowper - 1817Full view - About this book
| 1799 - 354 pages
...ranks and degrees of people freely partake of it, and its general use in our own country is well known. 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,... | |
| William Cowper - 1801 - 280 pages
...th' imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'raace once again. Now stir the tire, uiul 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, BEAUTIES «F COWPER. That cheer... | |
| 1802 - 302 pages
...all ; 1 burn to set the imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again. 35 Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast. Let...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,... | |
| William Cowper - 1802 - 350 pages
...them all ; I burn to set th' imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...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,... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 234 pages
...them all ; I bum to set the imprisoned wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...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,... | |
| William Cowper - 1808 - 338 pages
...*H4'' '" I hurn to set th' imprison'd wranglers free, ' - .') And give them voree and utt'rance once Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, .' ..-. '.M And, while the huhhling and loud hissing urn" ' '. ' Throws up a steamy column, and the... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...them all; I burn to set th* imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt* ranee once again. sooner are undone. I Here have 1 seen the King, when...great affairs Gave leave to slacken anJ unbend his c bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cnpj That cheer not to inebriate,... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - 212 pages
...them all ; I burn to set th' imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...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,... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1811 - 476 pages
...domestic fire-side, as our lamented Cowper. I am tempted to add a few of these interesting sketches. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...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,... | |
| 1814 - 580 pages
...dissipates at once the twilight and the sunshine; and the ambitious dreamer is summoned to his tea .' Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheev, but not inebriate,... | |
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