 Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round....  The Popular Educator - Σελίδα 6841855Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 σελίδες
...gray-beard mirth and smiling toil retir'd, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination...The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door. . . . Vain transitory splendours ! could not all Reprieve... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 734 σελίδες
...gray-beard mirth and smiling toil retir'd, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination...The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The vaniish'd clock that click'd behind the door. . . .... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 σελίδες
...gray-beard mirth and smiling toil retir'd, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination...The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door. . . .... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 σελίδες
...grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retir'd, Where village statesmen taik'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendors of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor. The varnish'd clock... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 σελίδες
...graybeard mirth and smiling toil retired ; Where village statesmen talked with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlor splendors of that festive place ; The whitewashed wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnished... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1848 - 338 σελίδες
...this brief soliloquy Dummie descended the stairs, and let himself out of the house. CHAPTER II. • Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place." THEKE is little to interest in a narrativo of early childhood, unless indeed one were writing on education.... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 σελίδες
...gray-beard mirth and smiling toil retir'd, Where village stak'sraen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace '('he parlour splendours of that festive place ; The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 σελίδες
...grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retir'd, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round ; Imagination...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 σελίδες
...graybeard mirth, and smiling toil retir'd, Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlor splendors of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 σελίδες
...grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination...The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white- wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night,... | |
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