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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 46
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1809
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The Miscellaneous Works of O.G.: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 pages
...Imagination fondly stoops to trace 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 chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures placed for...
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Rose and Crown lane: or, A sketch of my neighbourhood

Rose and crown lane - 1840 - 152 pages
...occupied as a work-room ; it has also a press bedstead, like that described by Goldsmith, " Contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day." This is occupied by Miss Harris, and a little E servant girl, who is kept to carry the child about,...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...festive place ; The white- washed wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnish' d clock that click' d behind the door: The chest contriv'da double debt...royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when winter chill' d the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours ofthat festive placeI The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd 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...
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Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...Imagination fondly stoops to trace 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 chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures placed for...
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The Parish Clerk, Volume 2

Joseph Hewlett, Theodore Edward Hook - 1841 - 342 pages
...part of his lifting desk, and, letting down the front of a piece of furniture which was " Contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day," made as much noise as he could during the operation. He then, without undressing himself, put out his...
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The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With the Portrait of the Author

Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...splendours of that festive place; The white-wash'd wall , the nicely sanded floor , The varnisli'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest contriv'da...royal game of goose ; The hearth , except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs , and flowers and fennel gay, While broken tea-cups , wisely kept...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric, Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1842 - 326 pages
...wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnished clock that ticked 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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 51

Scotland - 1842 - 1552 pages
...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 wheo winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs and floweri and fennel g«y, While broken tea-cups,...
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The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With the Portrait of the Author

Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...Imagination fondly stoops to trace 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 chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day; The pictures placed for...
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