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...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...

...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...

...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...

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...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...The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, With aspin boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay; While broken teacups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er...

...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...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...

...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 fern and fennel gay ; While broken tea-cups wisely kept for...

...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. « Captain Hpgan, I have heard, found great difficulty in obtaining ' the twelve good rules,' but at...

...the " twelve good rules," and the " royal game of goose," not omitting even the — " broken tea-cups wisely kept for show Ranged o'er the chimney glistened in a row," — which for better security in the frail tenure of an Irish publican, or the doubtful decorum of...