...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 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,...

...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 fall the...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,...

...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,...

...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 fall the...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 And bored with...

...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 fall the...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...

...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 fall the...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." " The poet's or...

...excellent. — He died of natural decay, BC 361, aged 109. Vatietie*. ATTEMPTED AUTHORSHIP. — "Now strr the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the...bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column." .... Winter Evening .— CowrjjR. Bless my heart, how it rains — provoking ! now I can't go out this...

...fo-inorrow morning." 16* 186 i CHAPTER XV. A TEA-PARTY'. i .ul fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round '.ml while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up...cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each, Thus let the welcome peaceful evening in. * COWPJJB'S Task. THE approach of the cold and rainy season...

...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 the...curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, Let us welcome peaceful evening in." " At the conclusion...

...XXXIV. A TEA-PARTY. Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round Ami while the bubbling and loud kissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each, Th"s let us welcome peaceful evening in. Cotwper'* Tatk. THE approach of the cold and rainy season...