 | William Lisle Bowles - 1826 - 175 lehte
...we sit and talk together — quoniam convenimus — which image do you opine to be most poetical ? The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. Or this, ; Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, Where health, &c. But my object in drawing... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 lehte
...Rule Second, while it is brought forward as an exception to his fourth interrogative rule— ,..,...'. The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. i • ' i —a sentence, the sense of which he has evidently mistaken. We have marked with the inflections,... | |
 | 1826 - 300 lehte
...wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnisli'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... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1826 - 212 lehte
...we sit and talk together — quoniam convenimus — which image do you opine to be most poetical ? The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a ckett of drawers by day. Or this. Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain. Where health, &c. But... | |
 | 1828 - 488 lehte
...had furnished it, it could scarcely be said to have a leg to 'stand upon. Then there was, in truth, " The chest, contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a cliest of drawers by day ;"— " The sanded floor, that grits beneath the tread, The humid wall, with... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 lehte
...cheat, conti iv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, H dies* of drawers by day ; The pictures pluc'd for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goosey The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 lehte
...that clicked behind the door; The chi st, contrived a cloub'e debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest oí cal allusions to the court and politics of England...contending parties in the state, and various matter aepeu boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 lehte
...according to the letter : The wime-wash'il wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that clicktt letter? Nay, never falter, man; but look me full in the face : I say, do you know nee, The twelve good rules, the royal game of gooes. "Captain Hogan, I have tuard, found great difficulty... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 lehte
...wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The cheat, 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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 lehte
...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 fay day ; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use. The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose... | |
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Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of 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 to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers... 
