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" 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... "
Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works - Page 8
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 127 pages
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...that festive place ; The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked f white, That shadowy in the moonlight shone : The neck that made that chilled the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay ; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...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...drawers by day ; The pictures placed for ornament nnd use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose; The hearth, except when winter chill'd the...
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The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America: Consisting of Literary Gems and ...

1845 - 614 pages
...that festive place : The white-washed wall, the nicely-winded floor, The varnished clock tl it clicked behind the door; The chest, contrived a double debt...ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal same of goose, The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...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...royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel, gay , While broken tea-cups, wisely kept...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volume 1

William Howitt - 1847 - 524 pages
...that festive place ; The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt...royal game of goose. The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay, While broken tea cups, wisely kept...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...arranged according to the letter: The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd dock lf the .spleen, be contented at present with an Indian...island unfrequented by the inhabitants of the contine " Captain Hogan, I have heard, found great difficulty In obtaining ' the twelve good rules,' but at...
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North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Series for ...

David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...that festive place ; The whitewashed wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door ; The chest, contrived a double debt...royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, With aspen "boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay: While broken teacups, \ -isely kept...
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The Beauties of the British Poets: With a Few Introductory Observations

George Croly - 1849 - 416 pages
...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...royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay ; While broken teacups, wisely kept...
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Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons ...

Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pages
...that festive place ; The whitewashed wall, the nicely-sanded floor,* The varnished clock that clicked behind the door : The chest contrived a double debt...use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose ; 6 The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers and fennel gay;...
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Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons ...

Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...clicked behind the door ; * A most beautiful instance of onomatopoeia, or sound adapted to the senie. The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by...use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose ; 5 The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers and fennel gay ;...
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