 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
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 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... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1854 - 396 pages
...Within every thing is arranged according to the letter : f The whitewash'd wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the...placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the rttyal game of goose.' "Captain Hogan, I have heard, found great difficulty in obtaining ' the twelve... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 586 pages
...stoops to trace The parlor splendors of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the...royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when winter chitl'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gav ; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept... | |
 | 1855 - 424 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... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1856 - 596 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... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 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 Sowers and fennel gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for... | |
 | James Pagan - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1856 - 594 pages
...order. "The white- washed wall ; the nicely sanded floor ; The varnished clock that click 'd bchind the door; The chest contrived a double debt to pay,...use; The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose; * It appears from AtKlison, that in his day, the common plates and dishes in a house were made of pewter... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 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...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... | |
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