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" Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The 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... "
Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets - Page 202
by William Howitt - 1863 - 706 pages
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The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...chest, Contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of draw'rs 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 flow'rs, and fennel, gay; While broken tea cups, wisely kept...
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The Beauties of the Poets:: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ...

English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The 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...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...the nicely sanded floor,. The varnish 'd clock that click'd behind the door ; The 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...
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Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell

Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door ; The chest, contrived a double debt to pay,...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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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door : The 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...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door ; The 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, Xh« Twelve Good Rules, the Koyal Game of Goose ; The hearth, except when...
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The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry

Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The 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...
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The Discarded Son: Or, Haunt of the Banditti. A Tale ...

Regina Maria Roche - English fiction - 1807 - 352 pages
...and its furniture consisting of a ' Varnish M clock that tick'd behind the door, A clirst, contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.' Munro stood too much in need of a fire to have any hesitation in requesting that the ornaments of the...
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Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions ..., Volumes 5-6

Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1807 - 904 pages
...nicely-sanded Jltor, The varnish' d cluck thai click' </ behind the. door ; The chest contrwd a double delt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. Thepictures plar.'d for ornament and use, The twelve good rules ; the r»yal game of goose; The hearth,...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...chest contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of draw'rs by day; 1'he pictures plac'd povv'r ethereal, only uot.ador'd. § iGO. Inconsistency of Man. AH ! how unjust to nature, and himsel chill'd the day, W ith aspen boughs, and floWrs, and fennel gay. kVhile broken, tea-cups, w iscly kept...
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