 Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round....  The Popular Educator - Стр. 6841855Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | John Forster - 1848 - Страниц: 744
...gray-beard mirth and smiling toil retir'd, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination...The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door. . . . Vain transitory splendours ! could not all Reprieve... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - Страниц: 734
...gray-beard mirth and smiling toil retir'd, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination...The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The vaniish'd clock that click'd behind the door. . . .... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - Страниц: 740
...gray-beard mirth and smiling toil retir'd, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination...The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door. . . .... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - Страниц: 468
...grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retir'd, Where village statesmen taik'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendors of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor. The varnish'd clock... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - Страниц: 444
...graybeard mirth and smiling toil retired ; Where village statesmen talked with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlor splendors of that festive place ; The whitewashed wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnished... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1848 - Страниц: 338
...this brief soliloquy Dummie descended the stairs, and let himself out of the house. CHAPTER II. • Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place." THEKE is little to interest in a narrativo of early childhood, unless indeed one were writing on education.... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - Страниц: 736
...gray-beard mirth and smiling toil retir'd, Where village stak'sraen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace '('he parlour splendours of that festive place ; The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - Страниц: 596
...grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retir'd, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round ; Imagination...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - Страниц: 558
...graybeard mirth, and smiling toil retir'd, Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlor splendors of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - Страниц: 160
...grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination...The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white- wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night,... | |
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