 | Mrs. Charles Meredith - Tasmania - 1852 - 300 pages
...settee in the landlady's little kitchen. The clever bed which Goldsmith celebrates as contriving " A double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day,'* had a perfect sinecure compared with the little oblong table of our miniature apartment, which, after... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 404 pages
...nicely-sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door : The chest, contrived a douhle debt to pay, A bed by night, 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish Literature (in English) - 1854 - 348 pages
...looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. f< Imagination fondly stoops to trace 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 by day ; The pictures placed for... | |
 | Architecture - 1898 - 558 pages
...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... | |
 | Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 516 pages
...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 by day; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose; The hearth, except when... | |
 | Malhar Bhikaji Belsare - Foreign Language Study - 1981 - 1234 pages
...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 - 662 pages
...the nicely sanded floor,22 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 placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose;23 The hearth, except when... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 356 pages
...double debt to pay': Oliver Goldsmith (?173O-74>, The Deserted Village', 229-30: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, / A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.' 139. a parte ante and a parte post: 'Beforehand and afterwards'. 140. her arms . . . like Hebe's: Aurora... | |
 | Aaron Santesso - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 230 pages
...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 by day; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose; The hearth, except when... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...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 by day; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose; The hearth, except when... | |
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