 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 - 1854
...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, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - 1854 - 303 σελίδες
...gray-beard mirth and smiling toil retired ; [ Where (^jllage 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 - 1854 - 998 σελίδες
...to the letter : — The whitewash'd wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varuibh'd clock that click'd* behind the door: The chest, contrived a double debt to pay — A bed by i if;ht , a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules,... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 448 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 The parlour-splendours of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 166 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 whitewashed wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnished... | |
 | 1918 - 4009 σελίδες
...news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlor splendors nd long! The ecstasies above With thy burning measures suit: Thy grief, thy joy, thy hate, thy lov ticked behind the door; The chest, contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1921 - 410 σελίδες
...Where village statesmen talked with looks To me more dear, congenial to my heart, profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace One native charm, than all the gloss of art. Spontaneous joys, where Nature has its play, The parlor... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1922 - 240 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 1100 σελίδες
...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 clock that ticked behind the door ; The chest, contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers... | |
 | Gregory A. Schirmer - 1998 - 426 σελίδες
...negotiate between the two. In "The Deserted Village," there is a description of a public house in Auburn: Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours...floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door.21 This looks like no rural pub in Ireland that Goldsmith could ever have seen. In fact, writing... | |
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