 Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place: The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers...  The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 232by John Forster - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pages
...chest, Contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of draw'rs by day ; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal...when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flow'rs, and fennel, gay; While broken tea cups, wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pages
...chest, contriv'da double debt to pay; A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal...when winter chill'd the day. With aspen boughs, and flow'rs, and fennel gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...chest contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The Twelve good Rules, the royal Game of Goose ; The hearth, except when whiter chill'd the day, V^th aspin boughs, and flowers and fennel gay ; While broken tea-cups, wisely... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...behind the door ; The chest, contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day; The pictures, placed for ornament and use, The twelve...boughs, and flowers, and fennel, gay : While broken tea cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendours... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pages
...chest contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal...gay; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendors ! could not all Reprieve the... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...chest, contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal...when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flow'rs, and fennel gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...chest of drawers by day ; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, Xh« Twelve Good Rules, the Koyal Game of Goose ; The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspin boughs, and (lowers, and fennel gay. With broken tea cups, wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...chest, contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal...when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flow'rs, and fennel gay ; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for shew, Rang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...chest contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures plac'd for .ornament and use, The Twelve Good Rules, the...The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspin boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay, With broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...chest contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of draw'rs by day; 1'he pictures plac'd povv'r ethereal, only uot.ador'd. § iGO. Inconsistency...how unjust to nature, and himself, Is thoughtless W ith aspen boughs, and floWrs, and fennel gay. kVhile broken, tea-cups, w iscly kept for show, .tang'd... | |
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