 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
 | Humphry William Woolrych - 1833 - 272 σελίδες
...however, which we shall ourselves explain in the next Chapter. CHAPTER XII. . THX VILLAGE ALEHOUSE. " Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place." GOLDSMITH. IN a nook hard by the high roarl which led onwards to Bedford, stood the village alehouse.... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 σελίδες
...the affections. The following description of a country inn is from Goldsmith's Deserted Village : — Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours...the 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... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 σελίδες
...the affections. The following description of a country inn is from Goldsmith's Deserted Village :— Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours...The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The Tarnished clock that ticked behind the door; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 σελίδες
...gray-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 varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 558 σελίδες
...him well. He was, indeed, a man severe to view. A woman called Walsey Cruse kept the alehouse — « Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place.' I have been often in the house. The hawthorn-bush was remarkably large, and stood opposite the alehouse.... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - 572 σελίδες
...vicinity, is corroborated by an anecdote told by a traveller some years ago in the United States. " Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place." from it a branch." ' I have been often in the house. The hawthorn-bush was remarkably large, and stood... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 554 σελίδες
...him well. He was, indeed, a man severe to view. A woman called Walsey Cruse kept the alehouse — ' Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place.' I have been often in the house. The hawthornbush was remarkably large, and stood opposite the alehouse.... | |
 | 1837 - 536 σελίδες
...him well. He was, indeed, a man severe to view. A woman called Walsey Cruse kept the alehouse— " Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place." I have been often in the house. The hawthorn-bush was remarkably large, and stood opposite the alehouse.... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 550 σελίδες
...him well. He was, indeed, a man severe to view. A woman called Walsey Cruse kept the alehouse — * Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place.' I have been often in the house. The hawthorn-bush was remarkably large, and stood opposite the alehouse.... | |
 | William Howitt - 1838 - 414 σελίδες
...legislative measure within the last century. In these low, dirty, fuddling places, you may look in vain for The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door. In manufacturing towns, and agricultural districts, they alike multiply the temptations to the poor... | |
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