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
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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;... | |
| 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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