 | Almanacs, English - 1819 - 426 pages
...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. ' Ever since tea has been known, its clear and gentle powers of inspiration have been acknowledged,... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...the curtains, wheel the sofa round : And while the bubbling and luud 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." How different, however, is the lot of foreign missionaries. "Here we have no continuing... | |
 | William Cowper - 1869 - 306 pages
...inn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups. bespeaks Salvation, on i.er way" [ T THE HSZ. 121 1 hat 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 theatre, and, squeez'd And bor'd with... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 278 pages
...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,...on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. Not such his ev'ning, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeez'd And bor'd with... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...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 theatre, and, squeezed... | |
 | 1821 - 420 pages
...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." " The poet's or historian's page by one Made vocal for the amusement of the rest; The... | |
 | English essays - 1822 - 468 pages
...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. This winter-pleasure being satisfactorily enjoyed, then there are the after-pleasures of... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...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 theatre, and squeezed... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...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 Winter Evening in. Hpw calm is my recess ! and how the frost Raging abroad, and the rough wind, endear... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...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,...on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. Not such his ev'ning, who, with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and squeez'd And bor'd with... | |
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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... 
