 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 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 aspin boughs, and flowers and fennel gay . While broken tea-cups, wisely kept... | |
 | 1821 - 662 strani
...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...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... | |
 | 1821 - 656 strani
...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...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 strani
...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...transitory splendours! could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall! Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart An hour's importance to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 strani
...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...transitory splendours ! could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall ! Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart An hour's importance to... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 strani
...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 placed for...show, Ranged o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row ». How can such images as these be admitted into the visions of the mind without placing us in the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 strani
...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...fennel gay; While broken teacups, wisely kept for show, Hanged o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendours! could not all Reprieve the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 strani
...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...gay ; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Hang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendours ! could not all Reprieve the*... | |
 | 1822 - 690 strani
...varnisli'd clock, that click'cl 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," &c. Captain Hogan, I have heard, found great difficulty in obtaining " the twelve good rules," but... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 strani
...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...gay ; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendors ! could not all Reprieve the... | |
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