 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...  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - 123. oldal1847Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 oldal
...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 game of goose;. The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, With aspin boughs, and flowers and fennel gay; While... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 oldal
...cheat, conti iv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, H dies* of drawers by day ; The pictures pluc'd for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goosey The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 oldal
...the door; The chi st, contrived a cloub'e debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest oí drawers by day ; the court and politics of England — to Walpole, Bolingbroke, the Prince of Wales, the ; The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, With aepeu boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay; While... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 oldal
...cheat, 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 :... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 oldal
...chest contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers fay 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 aspin boughs, and flowers and fennel gay, While... | |
 | 1825 - 500 oldal
...behind the door ; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a ch"st of drawers by day : The pictures placed for ornament and use ; The twelve good rules ; the royal game of goose." — GOLDSMITH. MY GRANDMOTHER. "j%/irY grandfather was a farmer in •"-*• Derbyshire, who cultivated... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 oldal
...Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The pictures plac*d, for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.— Goldmlth. arts. THE eighteenth of the month Ab is a Hebrew fast, because that in the time of Ahab the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1835 - 362 oldal
...behind the door, The chest contrived a double debt to par, A bed by night, a ehcst of drawers by day ; The pictures placed for ornament and use. The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. " Captain Hogan, I have heard, found great difficulty in obtaining ' the twelve good rules,' but at... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 oldal
...behind the door; The chest contrived a douhle 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 game of goose; The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, With as pi 11 boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 oldal
...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 game of goose; The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspin boughs, and flowers and fennel gay, While... | |
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