 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
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...festive place, — • The whitewashed wall ; the nicely sanded door ; 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1877 - 526 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... | |
 | Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 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... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 738 pages
...stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the...hearth, except when Winter chill'd the day, With aspen bonglis and flowers and fennel gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er the chimney,... | |
 | 1886 - 548 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 608 pages
...Pigeons.' Within everything is arranged according to the letter: ' The whitewash'd wall, the nicely-sanded floor. The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the...a chest of drawers by day; The pictures placed for ornament.and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.' "Captain Hogan, I have heard, found... | |
 | 1887 - 410 pages
...parlor splendor of that festive place; The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that click'd behind the door— The chest contrived...the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gayWhile broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory... | |
 | Florence Caddy - 1886 - 402 pages
...parlour splendours of that festive place : The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that click'd behind the door ; The chest contrived...royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, With aspen boughs and flowers and fennel gay. Deserted Village. WHILE Goldsmith was... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1887 - 48 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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