 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 500 σελίδες
...nut-brown draughts iuspirM, Where 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 fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; , ~, The white-wash'd wall, the nicely... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - 1854 - 354 σελίδες
...nut-brown draughts inspired, fWhere 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 fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white wash'd wall, the nicely-sanded... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 σελίδες
...nut-brown draughts inspir'd, Where 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 fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 σελίδες
...draughts inspired, Where 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 parlour splendours of that festive place ; The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 σελίδες
...draughts inspired, Where 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 σελίδες
...draughts inspired, Where 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 Thu parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | Henry Charlton Beck - 1983 - 368 σελίδες
...hands and held them, saying over and over: "Old friends." ROADS UNDER WATER "Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round" OLIVER GOLDSMITH THIS GALLIVANTING WITH A GHOST had been only an interlude. Actually I was still at... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 σελίδες
...as in a capital tavern. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 σελίδες
...Liberation, "The Bar as Microcosm" (ed. by Leslie B. Tanner, 1970). 6 Where village statesmen talked b. 1 936), US physicist. Gettysburg Review (Summer 1989; repr. in H OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-74), Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. The Deserted Village. 7 There is... | |
 | Lawrence J. Taylor - 1995 - 308 σελίδες
...the passing eye. Low lies the house where nut-brown draughts inspired. Where village statesmen talked with looks profound. And news much older than their ale, went round. . . . No more the farmer's news, the pedlar's tale. No more the boatsman's ballad shall prevail; No... | |
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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 talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. 
