 Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place : The whitewashed 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 Fifth Progressive Reader - Seite 278von Pádraig Ó Seaghdha - 1878Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 Seiten
...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...boughs, and flowers, and fennel, gay , While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er the chimney, glistened in a row. Vain transitory splendors... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 Seiten
...behind the door; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day; from us ; my sister Livy is gone from us for ever."...II Yes, she is gone off with two gentlemen in a p chill'd the day, With aspin boughs, and flowers and fennel gay, While broken t.ea-cups, wisely kept... | |
 | 1847 - 854 Seiten
...vain for the picture Goldsmith has so beautifully drawn. The varnished clock clicking behind the door, the pictures placed for ornament and use, the twelve good rules, the royal game of goose, where are they ? Not there, but in many an oldfashioned hamlet of England. The mud-floor, the dirty... | |
 | 1847 - 862 Seiten
...the ludicrous in his zeal for an accurate fac-simile of the genuine house — and " Broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er the chimney, glistened in a row." 122 123 type in the poem. ' The "Jolly Pigeons" is just a regular Irish alehouse, or rather whisky-shop.... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 Seiten
...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..."boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay: While broken teacups, \ -isely kept for show, Ranged o'er the chimne_ , glistened in a row. Vain, transitory splend... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 Seiten
...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 ; 6 The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers and fennel gay;... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 Seiten
...when winter chilled the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers and fennel gay ; While broken teacups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er the chimney, glistened in a row. Vain, transitory splendors ! could not all 10 Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall ? Obscure... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 Seiten
...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...chilled the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and feanel gay ; While broken teacups, wisely kept for show, Hanged o'er the chimney, glistened in a row.... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 Seiten
...chest contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by uight, 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... | |
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