 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...  Studies in English and American Literature - Page 407de Goodloe Harper Bell - 1900 - 599 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 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... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...wall, the nicely sanded floor. The varnishM 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 - 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... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...festive place: The white- wash'd wall, the nicely a Tided floor; The varnish'd clock, that click'd behind the door; The chest, contrived a double debt...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... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 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 - 1813 - 124 pages
...wall, 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... | |
 | 1814 - 310 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 aspenjwughs, and flowers, and fennel gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 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 j The hearth, except when... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varaish'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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