 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...  A Collection of Eighteenth Century Verse - Page 326edited by - 1907 - 484 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...chest, coutriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by dny ; 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 aspin boughs, and flowers and fennel gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...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 winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers and fennel gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept... | |
 | Forbes M. Moir - 1820 - 238 pages
...The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door ; The chest contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed at night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures placed...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... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...chest, contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures plsc'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 flowers, and fennel, gay ;. While broken tea'cups, wisely kept... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...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 by day ; The pictures...hearth, except when "winter chilled the day, With aspin boughs, and flowers and fennel gay . While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er... | |
 | 1821 - 662 pages
...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 by day ; The pictures...use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose," &c. Captain Hogan, I have heard, found great difficulty in obtaining " the twelve good rules," but... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 656 pages
...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 by day ; The pictures...use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose," &c. Captain Hogan, I have heard, found great difficulty in obtaining " the twelve good rules," but... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...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 winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel, gay; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 pages
...and magical , it would at once have dissolved the charm. « The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night , a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures...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 - Bible - 1822 - 194 pages
...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 by day ; The pictures...royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay ; While broken teacups, wisely kept... | |
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