 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...  Stepping Stones to Literature - Page 55by Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1898 - 317 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...chest, Contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of draw'rs by day ; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose; The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flow'rs, and fennel, gay; While broken tea cups, wisely kept... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 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 by day; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose; The hearth, except when... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...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 by day; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The Twelve good Rules, the royal Game of Goose ; The hearth, except when... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door ; The chest, contrived a double debt...royal game of goose; The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel, gay : While broken tea cups, wisely kept... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 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 by day ; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose; The hearth, except when... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 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 by day ; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 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 by day ; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, Xh« Twelve Good Rules, the Koyal Game of Goose ; The hearth, except when... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...chest contriv'da doulile debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of draw'rs by day; The pictures plae'd for ornament and use. The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when winter chillM the iKy, With aspen boughs, aud fluw'rs, and fennel say, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...chest contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of draw'rs by day; 1'he pictures plac'd povv'r ethereal, only uot.ador'd. § iGO. Inconsistency of Man. AH ! how unjust to nature, and himsel chill'd the day, W ith aspen boughs, and floWrs, and fennel gay. kVhile broken, tea-cups, w iscly kept... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 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 by day ; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when... | |
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