| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 sivua
...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 by day ; ' Terms— ie the terms, moveable feasts, &c., of the Calender, which depend on mathematical calculations.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 sivua
...chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day; The pictures placed Livy is gone from us for ever." — "Gone, child!"...she is gone off with two gentlemen in a postchaise, aspin boughs, and flowers and fennel gay, While broken t.ea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 sivua
...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 by day ; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when... | |
| William Howitt - 1847 - 524 sivua
...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 by day. The pictures, placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. The hearth, except when... | |
| 1847 - 854 sivua
...Goldsmith has so beautifully drawn. The varnished clock clicking behind the door, the pictures placed for ornament and use, the twelve good rules, the royal game of goose, where are they ? Not there, but in many an oldfashioned hamlet of England. The mud-floor, the dirty... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 sivua
...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 by day ; The pictures placed for ornament and use ; The twelve good rules ; the royal game of goose ; The hearth, except... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1873 - 686 sivua
...that article of furniture mentioned by Oliver Goldsmith, in " The Deserted Village," was made — "A double debt to pay, — A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day." This was carried out to a particular extent at the house of one kind friend. We were invited to dinner,... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 sivua
...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 by day ; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose ; 6 The hearth, except... | |
| George Croly - 1849 - 428 sivua
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| 1913 - 610 sivua
...Tenth Series.] OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S ' DESERTED VILLAGE.' — Few lines are better known than the couplet, The chest contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of dfftwen by day. It may be suggestive of an origin, and is certainly worth noting as a coincidence,... | |
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