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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... "
Poems: By William Cowper, of the Inner Temple Esq. In Two Volumes ... - Page 139
by William Cowper - 1793 - 359 pages
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The Maids, Wives, and Widows' Penny Magazine, and Gazette ..., Volume 1, Issue 2

Fashion - 1832 - 240 pages
...usual. "——Wliile the bubbling nod loud-hissing Urn , rrhrows up a steamy column, and the cops, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each ; So let us welcome peaceful EVENING in." — Cmcpcr. Miss B. Bless me, Miss S ! what a tremendous budget you have laid on the table....
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The Imperial Magazine

1834 - 604 pages
...the curtains, wheel the »ofa 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 as welcome peaceful evening in." How different, however, is the lot of foreign missionaries. " Here...
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The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 4

1834 - 440 pages
...sofa 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. Such is the winter fire-side—and we lore to hear our writers speaking of its pleasures...
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Travels through Russia, Siberia, Poland, Cracow, Austria ... &c ..., Volume 2

James Holman - 1834 - 408 pages
...evening repasts were most grateful to me — " when the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each." It is true that, on these occasions, along with the steamy column of the poet's urn, I had the more...
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The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calandar of Popular ...

William Hone - Days - 1835 - 924 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 ev'ning in. This done, and the bard surrounded with means of enjoyment, he directs his sole attention to the newspaper,...
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The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review ...

William Cowper - 1835 - 620 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...
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The Christian Teacher, Volume 1

England - 1835 - 802 pages
...fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing um Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So lot us welcome peaceful evening in. COWPER. THUS the winter evenings were always ushered and welcomed...
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The Task: In Six Books

William Cowper - English poetry - 1836 - 206 pages
...the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissmg urn Throws up a streamy 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 shinmg face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeez'd And bor'd with...
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The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the ..., Volume 7

William Cowper - 1835 - 406 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...
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The Scottish Annual

1836 - 372 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." And doubly welcome, as we sit there in warm repose, listening to the driving rain. The...
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