 | China - 1799 - 354 pages
...shutters fast, Let fall the curtain, wheel the sofa round; And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. CoWPER. Thus we have reason to be thankful to Divine Providence for the blessings obtained from the... | |
 | 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,...on each, So let us welcome peaceful Evening in. Not tuch his evening, who, with shining face, Sweats in the crowded theatre, and squcez'd And bor'd with... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...them all ; I bum to set the imprisoned wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...the crowded theatre, and, squeezed And bored with elbow-points through both his sides, Out-scolds the ranting actor on the stage : Nor his, who patient... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 404 pages
...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...inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ey'ning in. Not such his ev'ning, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeez'd... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
...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...cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, 40 So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. Not such his ev'ning, who with shining face Sweats in the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pages
...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...column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait OH each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. Not such his ev'ning, who with shining fact Sweats... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 248 pages
...them all ; I burn to set th' irnprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...them all ; I burn to set th' imprisoned wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...the crowded theatre, and, squeezed And bored with elbow points through both his sides, Out-scolds the ranting actor on the stage ; Nor his, who patient... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...close the shutters fast. Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round : And while the bubbling and luud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups,...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in." How different, however, is the lot of foreign missionaries. "Here we have no continuing cily," is the... | |
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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... 
