 Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place : The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers...  American Education - Page 2461903Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...Twelve good Rules, the royal Game of Goose ; The hearth, except when whiter chill'd the day, V^th aspin boughs, and flowers and fennel gay ; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendours ! could not all Reprieve the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose; The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel,...gay; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendors ! could not all Reprieve the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...twelve good rules, the royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when winter chiil'd the day, With aspin boughs, and flowers and fennel gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for shew, Rang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendors ! could not all Reprieve... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose; The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel,...gay; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendours ! could not all Reprieve the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...twelve good rules, the royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspin boughs, and flowers and fennel gay> While broken teacups, wisely kept for shew, C2 Rang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendors ! could not all Reprieve... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose j The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel...gay~; While broken teacups, wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er the chimney glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendors ! ceuld not all Reprieve the... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...rules, the royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when winter chill 'd the day, With aspenjwughs, and flowers, and fennel gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er the chimney, glisteh'd in a row. Vain transitory splendor ! could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1815 - 498 pages
...royal game of goose ; The hearth, except ivhen Winter chill' d the day, With aspen boughs, andjlowern, and fennel gay ; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er the chimney, glitler'd in a row." If these were meant to be comic, they ought not to have occurred in a serious... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose; The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel,...gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendors ! could not all Reprieve the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place: The white-washed wall, the...gay; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Hanged o'er the chimney, glistened in a row. Vain transitory splendours! could not all Reprieve the... | |
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