 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pàgines
...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 rounds Imagination fondly stoops, to trace • "'" ' ' The parlour spltndors of that festive place:... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pàgines
...nut-brown draughts inspired, Wher^ 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 fondly stoops to trace The parlor splendors of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pàgines
...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 parlor splendors of that festive place ; The whitewash'd wall ; the nicely sanded... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pàgines
...where nut-brown draughts inWhere 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pàgines
...nut-brown draughts infpir'd, Where grey-beard mirth and fmiling toil retir'd, Where village flatefmen talk'd with looks profound) And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly ftoops to trace The parlour fplendours of that feftive place ; The white-wafh'd wall, the nicely fanded... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 pàgines
...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 splendors of that festive place; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pàgines
...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... | |
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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. 
