 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 pagine
...nut-brown draughts inspir'il, Where 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 fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pagine
...draughts inspired, Where grey-beard 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 parlour splendours of that festive place: The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pagine
...nut-brown draughts inspir'd, Where 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 fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendors of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 pagine
...nut-brown draught! inspir'd, Where 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 fondly stoops to trace The parlor spleudors of that festive place ; The white-wath'd wall, the. nicely sanded... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pagine
...brown draughts inspir'di. Where 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 fondly stoops, to trace The parlour-splendors of that festive place ; The white'wash'd wall ; the nicely sanded... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 pagine
...brown draught sinspir'd; Where gray beard mirth, and smiling toilretir'd ; Where village statesman talk'd, with looks profound, And news, much older than their ale, went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlor splendors ot that festive place ; The white wash'd wall ; the nicely sanded... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pagine
...nut-brown draughts inspir'd, Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retir'd, Where village statesmen talkM with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round; Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pagine
...draughts inspired, Where gray-beard 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 parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pagine
...nut-brown draughts inspir'd, Where 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 fondly stoops to trace The parlour-splendours of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 pagine
...nut-brown draughts inspired, Where gray-beard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded... | |
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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 talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. 
