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 - 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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