 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 429 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 varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845
...grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired ; Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination...of that festive place ; The white-washed wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door ; The chest, contrived a double... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 527 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 50 σελίδες
...convey, by their sound, some resemblance to the subject which they express, as in the following lines : The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door.* Of a similar character, and nearly of equal merit, are those sentences or expressions which in any... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 429 σελίδες
...convey, by their sonnd, some resemblance to the subject which they express, as in the following lines : The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door. * Of a similar character, and nearly of equal merit, arc those sentences or expressions which in any... | |
 | 1845 - 600 σελίδες
...grnybenrd mirth, and smiling toil, retirtd, 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-washed wall, the nicely-winded floor, The varnished... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 527 σελίδες
...gray-beard mirth, and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news d his ! — Thus to rub nu- of my child ! — And...for taking kiek my sweet innocent that I was leading white-waah'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847
...details. Where, indeed, did any one see in an Irish country alehouse " the parlour splendours of a festive place ;" " the whitewashed wall, the nicely...varnished clock, that clicked behind the door ; the hearth, except when winter chilled the day, with aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay?" Where... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 288 σελίδες
...gray-beard 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 white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 704 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... | |
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