 | George Merriam - Reader (Elementary) - 1841 - 308 pages
...absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. 4. 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,... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1841 - 894 pages
...gentle eye upon this wretch" but, having obtained the newspaper, determines to enjoy himself, and cries Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...the curtains, wheel the sofa round. And, while the bnbbling and load-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and tbe cups. That cheer, but not inebriate,... | |
 | 1843
...beautiful scene of "fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness," does Cowper's exquisite poem open to us ! " Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1842 - 162 pages
...all ; I burn to set th' imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. 35 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,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1842 - 166 pages
...all ; I burn to set th' imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. 35 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 698 pages
...to Shaws-Castle, and you shall hear of my speed in wooing for you to-morrow morning." A TEA-PARTY. Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round ; And while the bubbling and loud in sing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer, but not inebriate, watt on each. Thus... | |
 | Walter Scott - Historical fiction, Scottish - 1845 - 636 pages
...to Shaws-Castle, and you shall hear of my speed in wooing for you to-morrow morning." A TEA-rAUTY. Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round ; And while the bubbling and loud hUsing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each, Thus... | |
 | John Beaufain Irving - Berkeley Co., South Carolina - 1842 - 104 pages
...piled upon the hearth, and with our families, we circle round the cheerful blaze in social mirth. " 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 Baron- Wilson - 1842 - 334 pages
...and the conversation soon became turned on far different themes. CHAPTER XII. " Now stir the flre, and close the shutters fast; Let fall the curtains — wheel the sofa roun-l : *••.»•• This folio of four pages — happy work ! Which not even critics criticise... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 728 pages
...The logie, and the wisdom, and the wit, And the loud laugh, — I long to know them all; — 1 burn to set the imprisoned wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance ajain. It was with such feelings that I eyed the approach of the new coach, lately established on our... | |
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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... 
