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
| Samuel Phillips Newman - 1842 - 326 strani
...ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose; The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel...tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er the chimney, glistened in a row, Mrs. Hemans thus describes a mother's love ; There is none In all this cold and... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 strani
...varnished clock that clicked behind the door; The chest, contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, hen the poet chilled the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay ; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 strani
...Terms— ie the terms, moveable feasts, &c., of the Calender, which depend on mathematical calculations. The pictures placed for ornament and use, The Twelve...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 strani
...double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures placed for ornament nnd use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose;...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... | |
| 1845 - 614 strani
...varnished clock tl it 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...ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal same of goose, The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 strani
...varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, gone from us, she is gone from us ; my sister Livy...she is gone off with two gentlemen in a postchaise, aspin boughs, and flowers and fennel gay, While broken t.ea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 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 tea-cups, wisely kept... | |
| William Howitt - 1847 - 524 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 tea cups, wisely kept... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 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... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 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, \ -isely kept... | |
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