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 - Seite 171von Book - 1854 - 448 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 Seiten
...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, found great difficulty in obtaining ' the twelve good rules,' but at... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 Seiten
...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...While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain, transitory splendour ! Could not all Reprieve the tottering... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 Seiten
...rarnish'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...and use. The twelve good rules, the royal game of goote.' " Cuptain Hogan, I have heard, found great difficulty in obtaining 'the twelve good rules,'... | |
| Royalist - 1852 - 322 Seiten
...debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. * * * * 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, glittered in a row. GOLDSMITH'S DESERTED VILLAGE. IT has been mentioned that the neighbouring property,... | |
| 1852 - 324 Seiten
...to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. » * » * 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, glittered in a row. GOLDSMITH'S DESERTED VILLAGE. IT has been mentioned that the neighbouring' property,... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 Seiten
...the door ; The chest, contrived a double debt to pay, A bed^by night, a chest of drawers by day ; 330 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... | |
| John Drinkwater - 1922 - 288 Seiten
...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... | |
| Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 Seiten
...varnished clock that clicked behind the door ; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, iful. Think not, however, that this glistened in a row. Vain transitory splendours ! could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from... | |
| 1926 - 780 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...o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendors! could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall? Obscure it sinks, nor shall... | |
| Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 Seiten
...behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers byday ; setting suns, And the round ocean and the living...the blue sky, and in the mind of man: A motion and glistened in a row. Vain transitory splendours! could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its... | |
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