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 (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 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...fennel gay; While broken teacups, wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendour ! could not all Reprieve the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 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, "Captain Hogan, I have heard, fuund great difficulty !n obtaining 'the twelve good rules,' but at length... | |
| 1840 - 378 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...could not all Reprieve the tott'ring mansion from its falll Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart An hour's importance to the poor man's heart ; Thither... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 strani
...debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures placed for ornament ana us*, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose ; The...tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er the chimney, glistened in a row. ' Vain transitory splendour ! could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 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 - 1841 - 548 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...The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspin boughs, and flowers and fennel gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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 game of goose ; The hearth, except when winter chill' d the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 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...gay, While broken tea-cups , wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendours ! could not all Reprieve the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 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...The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspin boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er... | |
| 1842 - 1552 strani
...varniah'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...rules, the royal game of goose : The hearth, except wheo winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs and floweri and fennel g«y, While broken tea-cups,... | |
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