| 1842 - 608 páginas
...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." No. 26. A beautifully sketched Quay Scene, by Creswick. No. 31. Redgrave has excelled himself in lightness... | |
| John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 604 páginas
...— "Imagination fondly sloops to trace The parlor splendors of tnat festive place; The whiiewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door1' — objects that, we suspect, never existed at any period, except in the imagination of the... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...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 winter chilled the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay ; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door; The chest, contrived a hone : The neck that made that placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when... | |
| 1898 - 558 páginas
...there. And this was a sine qua non of an American house ! Then the fold-up bedstead ! !— " Contrived a double debt to pay— A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ! " Could anyone seriously contend that that would be a desirable thing in London ? It was the hotel... | |
| Robert Charles Bell - 1979 - 474 páginas
...property. In his poem The Deserted Village published in 1770 Oliver Goldsmith wrote: The pictures place'd for ornament and use, The Twelve good rules, the Royal Game of Goose. The games of pure amusement were soon followed by a host of others based on the same principles and designed... | |
| Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 páginas
...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... | |
| Malhar Bhikaji Belsare - 1981 - 1234 páginas
...drugs, aromática, and perfumes; an apothecary. Prov. aûvffti oûlO, ^ xji^i îjiil A box contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. ». (+S. ci% a profession /?•. to be. ] The business of a grocer. 2. A little knowledge of everything;... | |
| Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 662 páginas
...the nicely sanded floor,22 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;23 The hearth, except when... | |
| Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 650 páginas
...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; 23 The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day. With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay,... | |
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