 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1770 - 44 pages
...nut-brown draughts infpired, Where grey-beard mirth and fmiling toil retired, Where village ftatefmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly ftoops to trace The parlour fplendours of that feftive place; The white-wafhed wall, the nicely fanded... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1771 - 590 pages
...nut-brown draughts inspired, Where grey-beard mirth and fmiling toil retiree, Where village ilatefmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly (loops to trace The parlour fplendours of that feftive place ; The white- warned wall, the nicely-fancied... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1774 - 70 pages
...nut-brown draughts infpired, Where grey-beard mirth and fmiling toil retired, Where village ftatefmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly ftoops to trace The parlour fplendours of that feftive place ; The white-wafhed wall, the nicely fanded... | |
 | 1785 - 316 pages
...draught* infpir'd, Where grey-beard mirth and fmiling toil retir'd, Where village ftatefmen 'talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly ftoops to trace, The parlour fplendors of that feftive place f The white-wafh'd wall, the siceiy-fanded... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - 1785 - 544 pages
...draught? infpir'd, Where grey-beard mirth, and fmiling toil retir'd ; Where village ftatefmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly ftoops to trace, The parlour fplendors of that feftive place ; The white-wafh'd wall, the nicely fanded... | |
 | William Scott - 1789 - 416 pages
...draughts iriTpir'd;: \Vliere gra*beard mirth, and ftnilbg toil, retir'd ; Where village- flat efmen talk'd .-with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly (loops, to trace The parloiuvfplendours of that feftive-place : — The white-wafli'd wall ; the niceIy-fanded... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 206 pages
...dranghtsinfpir'd, Where grey-beard mirth, and fmiling toil retir'd, Where village ftatefmen talk'd with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly (loops to trace The parlour fplendors of that feftive place ; The white-waflt'd wall* the nicely fanded... | |
 | 1792 - 112 pages
...draughts infpir'dj Where grey-beard mirth, and Irniling toil retir'd, Where village ftatefmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly ftoops to trace The parlour fplendors of that feftive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely fanded... | |
 | James Roach - 1792 - 284 pages
...draughts infpir'd, Wheie grey-beard mirth, and finiling toil reuVd, "Where village flatefraen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly floops to trace The parlour fplendors of that feflive place ; The white-wafli'd wall, the nicely fanded... | |
 | T AGERTON - 1794 - 390 pages
...nut-brown draughts infpired, Where grey-beard mirth and fmiling toil retired, Where village ftatefmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly ftoops to trace zz$ The parlour fpiendours of that feftive place ; The white-warned wall, the niccly-fanded... | |
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Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where gray-beard mirth, and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talked with looks profound And news much older than their ale went round. 
