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... The book of celebrated poems - Stran 171avtor: Book - 1854 - 448 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 623 strani
...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...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,... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 623 strani
...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...and 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... | |
 | Aaron Santesso - 2006 - 221 strani
...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...fennel gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for shew, Ranged o'er the chimney, glistened in a row. (225-36) Goldsmith knows the power of the small... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2006 - 486 strani
...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...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... | |
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