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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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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place; The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock...a chest of drawers by day — The pictures placed ior ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose — The hearth, except when winter...
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Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, i y night My lonely widowed heart to cheer : Her eyes are dim ; Tho pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose; The hearth,...
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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 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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A few extracts selected at random from a dozen of the British classic poets ...

Shaldon Fonthill house - 1874 - 70 pages
...wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door ; The chest contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers...boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay ; While broken tea cups, wisely kept for show — Eang'd o'er the chimney, glistcn'd in a row Vain transitory splendours...
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Major's New code ... readers, Book 6

Henry Major - 1875 - 310 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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Our Poetical Favorites, Second Series: A Selection from the Best ..., Volume 2

1876 - 564 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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Little Classics, Volumes 13-14

Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 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, wisely kept for...
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Songs of Three Centuries

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...whitewashed wall ; the nicely sanded floor; The varnished clock that clicked behind the door ; Thechest, contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a...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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Songs of Three Centuries

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 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, wisely kept for...
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A New Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 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 teacups, wisely kept for...
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