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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... "
Translation from Madame de La Mothe-Guion. The task. Tirocinium. John Gilpin ... - Page 164
by William Cowper - 1836
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., 10. köide

John Aikin - 1821 - 278 lehte
...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...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,...
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The Etonian, 1. köide

1821 - 410 lehte
...two passages from a poet who seems to have felt the true pleasures of these social moments : — " 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 caps, Which cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,...
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The Etonian

1820 - 696 lehte
...have felt the true pleasures of these social moments : — " Now stir the fire, and close the shatters 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, Which cheer bat not inebriate, wait on each,...
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Poems, 2. köide

William Cowper - 1821 - 246 lehte
...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 inehriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in ; Not such his evening, who with shining...
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The English Reading Book in Verse: Adapted to Domestic and to School Education

William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 lehte
...; nor reeks the storm that blows Without ; and rattles on his humble roof. WINTER EVENING. Cowper. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...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...
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The Brighton magazine, 2. köide

1822 - 468 lehte
...the studiousness of attention. The same social poet has well described this fire-side delight also : Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...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...
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The British poets, including translations, 80. köide

British poets - 1822 - 310 lehte
...them all; I burn to set the' imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again. 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,...
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The Hermes; a literary, moral and scientific journal

206 lehte
...sober sense, and the treasured sweets of literature. Bat are we in a smaller, graver party ? then, " Stir the fire and close the shutters fast, Let fall...the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bub ling and loud hissing urn Throws up a -steaming column, and the cups. That cheer, bat not inebriate,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 lehte
...And give them voice and utterance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Jx!t fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while...cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each, Up let us welcome peaceful evening in. riot such his evening, who, with shining face. Sweats in the...
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The months of the year; or, Conversations on the calendar [signed J.R.].

J. R - 1824 - 350 lehte
...persevering to the end in what you esteem your duty. And now," he added, playfully quoting the poet, ' Stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall...bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, Let us welcome peaceful evening in." " At the conclusion of their refreshments, William was reminded...
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