 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 8by Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 127 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 774 pages
...that festive place : The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked pollutions chilled the day, With aspen boughs and flowers and fennel gay ; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept... | |
 | 1875 - 438 pages
...that festive place; The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The Tarnished 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 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 houghs, and flowers, and fennel, gay; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1870 - 444 pages
...Within, everything is arranged according to the letter : — " ' The whitewashed wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the...The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good»rules, the royal game of goose.' " Captain Hogan, I have heard, found great difficulty in obtaining... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1872 - 458 pages
...trace The parlour splendours of that festive place — • The whitewash'd wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the...the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers and fennel gayWhile broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pages
...festive place, — The whitewashed wall ; the nicely sanded floor ; The varnished clock that clicked chilled the day, With aspen boughs and flowers and fennel gay ; While broken teacups, wisely kept for... | |
 | 1872 - 692 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... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1872 - 396 pages
...YIRTUE'S SIDE." — GOLDSMITH. "GRIEF is ITSELF A MEDICINE, — AND BESTOWED 104 BO A DICE A. a H E Q J O The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by...royal game of goose; The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, =H i 3 O J o With aspen boughs and flowers and fennel gay, u a While broken tea-cups,... | |
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