 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...delights, Fireside enjoyments, homeborn happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long, uninterrupted evening,...rattling wheels stop short before these gates: No powder'd pert, proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm, assaults these doors Till the street rings:... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 104 pages
...dispersed by daylight and its cares. I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, homeborn happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof...and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening know." I call this a good human bit of writing, imaginative, too, — not so flushed, not so .... highfaluting... | |
 | 1879 - 396 pages
...by daylight and its cares. I crown thee king of intimate delights ; Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof...and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening know." — CoWPEli. THE BEAUTIFUL NEW YEAR. RY EOSA GRAHAM. • OW dawns the beautiful New Year ; Like dreams... | |
 | 1879 - 140 pages
...dispersed by daylight and its cares. I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, homeborn happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof...and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening know. WILLIAM COWPEE. A WRINKLED, crabbed man they picture thee, Old Winter, with a rugged beard as gray... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...dispersed by daylight and its cares. I crown thee king of intmiate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof...and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know. . . , Come, Evening, once again, season of 'peace; Return, sweet Evening, and continue long Methinks... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 pages
...smart and snappish dialogue that flippant wits call comedy." But, tranquilly pleased, it shares in " All the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed...retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, views." It looks on complacently while " The needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well... | |
 | William Cowper - 1881 - 562 pages
...enjoyments, homeborn happiness, And all the comtorts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Eetirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening know....rattling wheels stop short before these gates : No powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm assaults these doors Till the street rings... | |
 | Winter pictures - 1882 - 200 pages
...dispersed by daylight and its cares. I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof...the art Of sounding an alarm assaults these doors HOME WINTER EVENING. Till the street rings ; no stationary steeds Cough their own knell, while, heedless... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...dispersed by daylight and its cares. I crown thce king of intimate delights. Fireside enjoyments, hoiueborn happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof...gates ; No powdered pert proficient in the art Of soun ling an alarm assaults these doors Till the street rings; no stationary steeds Cough their own... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 538 pages
...and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening know." And then his complacency bursts forth once more. " No rattling wheels stop short before these gates,...alarm, assaults these doors Till the street rings." He cannot be content with being exceptionally blessed himself; he must point his happiness with the... | |
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I crown thee King of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, homeborn happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening know. 
