 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white-washed wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door ;...to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; ' Terms— ie the terms, moveable feasts, &c., of the Calender, which depend on mathematical calculations.... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door:...boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay, While broken tea cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er the chimney, glistened in a row. Vain transitory splendour... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...that festive place; The white-waah'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 aspin boughs, and flowers and fennel gay, While broken t.ea-cups, wisely kept... | |
 | Architecture - 1898 - 558 pages
...stowed away there. And this was a sine qua non of an American house ! Then the fold-up bedstead ! !— " Contrived a double debt to pay— A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ! " Could anyone seriously contend that that would be a desirable thing in London ? It was the hotel... | |
 | Robert Charles Bell - Games & Activities - 1979 - 474 pages
...became the winner's property. In his poem The Deserted Village published in 1770 Oliver Goldsmith wrote: The pictures place'd for ornament and use, The Twelve good rules, the Royal Game of Goose. The games of pure amusement were soon followed by a host of others based on the same principles and designed... | |
 | Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 516 pages
...trace The parlour splendours of that festive place; The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door;...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... | |
 | Malhar Bhikaji Belsare - Foreign Language Study - 1981 - 1234 pages
...vendor of drugs, aromática, and perfumes; an apothecary. Prov. aûvffti oûlO, ^ xji^i îjiil A box contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. ». (+S. ci% a profession /?•. to be. ] The business of a grocer. 2. A little knowledge of everything;... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 650 pages
...The parlour splendours of that festive place; 140 The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor," The varnished clock that clicked behind the door;...use. The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose; 23 The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day. With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...head could carry all he knew 4159 The Deserted Village The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, he living, and the yet unborn. 1762 Letter to a Member of the National Assembly Those who at night, a chest of drawers by day. 4160 The Deserted Village In all the silent manliness of grief.... | |
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Imagination fondly 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 door ; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers... 
