...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." Thus sang one of our most admired poets, who was feelingly alive to the charms of social life; but,...

...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,...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Seated on Mrs. Unwin's sofa, with the shutters closed, and the cheerful fire blazing on the hearth,...

...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...on each ; So let us welcome peaceful evening in." At such a time the ingenuous heart reveals its eloquent secrets ; and the feelings, that in the broad...

...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...on each ; So let us welcome peaceful evening in." At such a time the ingenuous heart reveals its eloquent secrets ; and the feelings, that in the broad...

...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...on each ; So let us welcome peaceful evening in." At such a time the ingenuous heart reveals its eloquent secret* ; and the feelings, that in the broad...

...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...with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeez'd And bored with elbow-points through both his sides, Outscolds the ranting actor on the stage...

...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...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. This folio of four pages,* happy work, Which not e'en critics criticise ; that holds Inquisitive attention,...

...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...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening In." The needle plying its busy task, the poet's or historian's page, the sprightly lyre, discourse, not...

...intimate delight," " fire-side enjoyments," and " home-born happiness," so graphically sketched, " Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in." The room, shorn of its material honors, and to be demolished in the end, will yet live in history,...

...shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing devotion. A lamp placed near him threw its light strong on his head, and marked elbow-points through both his side«, Out-scolds the ranting actor on the stage : Nor his who patient...