 Surely everybody is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a winter fireside, — candles at four o'clock, warm hearth-rugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies on the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging...  First flowers, by a literary amateur - Page 67by First flowers - 1825 - 271 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1877 - 798 pages
...of one kind or another, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely everybody is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a winter fireside ; candles at four o'clock, warm hearth-rugs, tea, a fair tua-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies on the floor, whilst the wind and rain... | |
 | 1821 - 724 pages
...of one kind or other, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely every body is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a winter fire-side : candles...ample draperies on the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without, And at the doors and windows seem to call, As heav'n and earth they... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1824 - 514 pages
...or storm, of one kind or other, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely every body is aware D d of the pleasures which attend a winter fire-side :...without, — and seem to call at the doors and windows As heav'n and earth they would together mell ; Yet the least entrance find they none at all ; Whence... | |
 | Gift books - 1825 - 306 pages
...mightily inclined to the sentiments so felicitously delivered on this subject by the OpiutnEater. • I put up a petition annually for as much snow, hail,...fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in 69 ample draperies on the floor, whilst the wind and the rain are raging audibly without, and seem... | |
 | 1830 - 480 pages
...of one kind or other, as the skies caH possihly afford us. Surely every hody is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a winter fireside; — candles...curtains flowing in ample draperies on the floor, while the wind and rain are raging audihly without : — " And at the doors and windows seem to call,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1847 - 270 pages
...of one kind or other, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely everybody is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a winter fire-side : candles...ample draperies on the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without, And at the doors and windows seem to call. As heav'n and earth they... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 316 pages
...of one kind or other, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely every body is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a winter fireside, candles...ample draperies on the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without, And at the doors and windows seem to call As heaven and earth they... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1850 - 324 pages
...of one kind or other, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely every body is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a winter fireside, candles...ample draperies on the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without, And at the doors and windows seem to call As heaven and earth they... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 290 pages
...of one kind or other, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely everybody is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a winter fireside, — candles...ample draperies on the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without, And at the doors and windows seem to call As heaven and earth they... | |
 | Charles Vaughan Grinfield - 1857 - 88 pages
...friends. " Surely, (exclaims the eloquent De Quincey,) everybody is aware of the divine pleasures that attend a winter fireside : candles at four o'clock...ample draperies on the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without, " And at the doors and windows seem to call, Ag heaven and earth they... | |
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