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... A Practical System of Rhetoric - Page 72by Samuel Phillips Newman - 1852 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
| Vicesimus Knox - 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. ยง 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... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...wall, the nicely sanded floor. The varnishM 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 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... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 308 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... | |
| John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...festive place: The white- wash'd wall, the nicely a Tided floor; The varnish'd clock, that click'd behind the door; The chest, contrived a double debt...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... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 pages
...wall, 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... | |
| 1814 - 310 pages
...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...royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when winter chill 'd the day, With aspenjwughs, and flowers, and fennel gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - 424 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 j The hearth, except when... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varaish'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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