 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...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, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The twelve gnod rules, the royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...chest, contriv'da double debt to pay, < A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose ; - The health, except when winter chill d the day, .'* With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay ; .... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...that festive place ; The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor. The varnished clock that clicked behind the door : The chest, contrived a double debt...hearth, except when "winter chilled the day, With aspin boughs, and flowers and fennel gay . While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 656 pages
...to the letter : " The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock, that click'd behind the door : The chest contrived a double debt...use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose," &c. Captain Hogan, I have heard, found great difficulty in obtaining " the twelve good rules," but... | |
 | 1821 - 658 pages
...to the letter : " The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock, that click'd behind the door : The chest contrived a double debt...use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose," &c. Captain Hogan, I have heard, found great difficulty in obtaining " the twelve good rules," but... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...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, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose; The hearth, except when... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bible - 1822 - 194 pages
...that festive place ; The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door : The chest contrived a double debt...royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay ; While broken teacups, wisely kept... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt...royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs and flowers and fennel gay; While broken teacups, wisely kept for... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 pages
..., that if all before had been beautiful and magical , it would at once have dissolved the charm. « The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by...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... | |
 | 1822 - 690 pages
...to the letter: " The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnisli'd clock, that click'cl behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt...use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose," &c. Captain Hogan, I have heard, found great difficulty in obtaining " the twelve good rules," but... | |
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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 ; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers... 
