 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 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 fay day ; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use. The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose... | |
 | 1825 - 500 pages
...trace The parlour splendors of lhat festive place ; '('he white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door ;...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... | |
 | 1832 - 524 pages
...had furnished it, it could scarcely be said to have a leg to stand upon. Then there was, in truth, The chest, contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; and, The sanded floor, that grits beneath the tread. The humid wall, with paltry pictures spread.... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1835 - 362 pages
...dock, that cllck'd 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...that festive place; The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The Tarnished clock that ticked behind the door; The chest contrived a double debt...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 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 aspin boughs, and flowers and fennel gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that ticked behind the door; The chest contrived a douhle debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by...The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, With as pi 11 boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay; While broken teacups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 444 pages
...according to the letter : 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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pages
...trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white-wash1 d wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door ;...by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The twelve good rules/3' the royal game of goose ; The hearth, except... | |
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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... 
