 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
 | 1851
...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...stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive \ilaxie. ', The whitewash'd wall, the nicely saw5ieA^o<M, The rarnish'd clock that click' d \>e\xm&... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 429 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 - 1851 - 429 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 384 σελίδες
...village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. !'magination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place : The white-wanh'd wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest,... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852
...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...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... | |
 | Royalist - 1852
...CLERK. KERR BRINGS HIS WIFE FROM THE WARS. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour-splendours of that festive place ; The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that ticked behind the door ; The chest, contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers... | |
 | 1852
...CLERK. KEItU BRINGS HIS WIFE FROM THE WARS. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour-splendours of that festive place; The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that ticked behind the door; The chest, contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 519 σελίδες
...grey-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 225 The parlour-splendours of that festive place ; The white-washed wall, the nicely-sanded floor,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 176 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 : The chest contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1853
...floor above ; but we may quote and apply, literally, a passage from the ' Deserted Village : ' — " 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 — "... | |
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