...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

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...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,...