 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 Task, Table Talk, and Other Poems: With Critical Observations of Various ... - Page 215by William Cowper - 1856 - 435 pagesFull view - About this book
 | China - 1799 - 354 pages
...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...the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. CoWPER. Thus we have reason to be thankful to Divine Providence... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, ' Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And,...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... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...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,...loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, BEAUTIES «F COWPER. That cheer but not inebriate, wait ofl each, So le.t us welcome peaceful ev'ning... | |
 | 1801 - 452 pages
...fast, Let fall the curtain, wheel the sofa round, A"d while the bubbling and loud hissing ur» Gg3 Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful Evening in. Not tuch his evening, who, with shining face, Sweats in the... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...free, And give them voice and utterance once again. 35 Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast. Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And,...shining face. Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeez'd And bored with elbow-points through both his sides, Out-scolds the ranting aftor on the stage... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And,...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... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 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 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, . And while ths bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on 6ach, So let us welcome peaceful evening TO. Not such his evening, wha with shining face Sweats in... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...free, And give them voice and utt* ranee once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, when great affairs Gave leave to slacken anJ unbend...to the chace by ajl the flow'r Of youth, whose ho cnpj That cheer not to inebriate, wait on each. So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. Not such his... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...tet fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and lond hissing urn ' Throws np 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... | |
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