 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...nut-brown draughts inspirM, Where greybeard mirth, and smiling toil retir'd, Where village-statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their...went round ; Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The pictures plac*d, for ornament and use, The twelve good... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...knew. • " • But past is all his fame. The very spot ' Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot.— Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where...and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pages
...all he knew. (l> But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumphed, is forgot. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where...that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where grey-beard mirth, and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...Beyond yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze, unprofitably gay.' There too is ' Near yonder thorn that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye ;' the house where nut-brown draughts inspired ; in short, even' striking object in the picture. There... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 pages
...spread,' ' the straggling fence that skirts the way, with blossomed furze unprofitably gay,' ' the thorn that lifts its head on high, where once the sign-post caught the passing eye,' ' the house where nut brown draughts inspired,' in short every striking object in the picture. There... | |
 | Serial publications - 1837 - 536 pages
...cresses spread," "the straggling fence that skirts the way, with blossomed furze unprofitably gay," " the thorn that lifts its head on high, where once the sign-post caught the passing eye," " the house where nut-brown draughts inspired," in short every striking object in the picture. There... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1837 - 572 pages
...spread," " the straggling fence that skirts the way, with blossomed furze unprofitably gay," " the thorn that lifts its head on high, where once the sign-post caught the passing eye," " the house where nut-brown draughts inspired," in short every striking object in the picture. There... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 564 pages
...spread,' ' the straggling fence that skirts the way, with blossomed furze unprofitably gay,' ' the thorn that lifts its head on high, where once the sign-post caught the passing eye,' ' the house where nut brown draughts inspired,' in short every striking object in the picture. There... | |
 | William Howitt - Country life - 1838 - 414 pages
...out-of-the-way, old-fashioned district. The very house which Goldsmith in his day described — Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen...profound, And news much older than their ale went round. It is a low, white-washed, or slap-dashed, or stuccoed, or timber-framed house, with its various roof,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where...that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where grey-beard mirth, and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And... | |
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Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown 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. 
