 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1906 - 628 sider
...wear her plumed And jewelled turban with a smile of peace, Or do we grind her still? The grand debate, The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and...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,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 548 sider
...luck at a' ; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'. A WINTER EVENING AT HOME 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,... | |
 | 1906 - 810 sider
...much touch. HOOD, A Nocturnal Sketch, lines 1-7 'Ireland my darling ! Ireland for ever' Evening. — 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,... | |
 | 1906 - 782 sider
...describes how, when the postman brought the newspaper full of the doings and the debates of mankind, I long to know them all. I burn to set the imprisoned...free, And give them voice and utterance once again. There were no newspapers in Shakespeare's time. The theater was the newspaper of the Elizabethans.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1909 - 632 sider
...wear her plumed And jewelled turban with a smile of peace, Or do we grind her still? The grand debate, The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and...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,... | |
 | 1909 - 448 sider
...had just taken possession of the public, we drank coffee and sang ourselves through the evening : — 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,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1909 - 328 sider
...many of us the winter evenings are as delightful, and I cannot say more, as the sweet summer days. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing um Throws up a steamy column, and the cups * Thomas a Kempis. ** Goethe. *** Cicero's... | |
 | Georgiana Countess of Dudley - 1909 - 330 sider
...WASHINGTON IRVING No woman should marry a teetotaler or a man who does not smoke. ROBERT Louis STEVENSON 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,... | |
 | John Alfred Gotch - 1909 - 362 sider
...along the " wearisome but needful length " of the country bridge, and called upon his companion to " Stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall...curtains, wheel the 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,... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young, James Francis Augustine Pyre - 1910 - 656 sider
...her plumed And jeweled turban with a smile of peace, Or do we grind her still? The grand debate, 30 The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and...free, And give them voice and utterance once again. 35 Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And... | |
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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... 
