 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 ページ
...nut-brown draughts inspired, Where greybeard 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 whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 ページ
...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 parlor splendors of that festive place ; The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 ページ
...nut-brown draughts inspirM, Where 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... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 ページ
...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 splendours of that festive place ; The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 734 ページ
...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 splendours of that festive place ; The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 ページ
...draughts inspired, Where 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 ページ
...draughts inspir'd, Where 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 ページ
...nut-brown draughts inspired, Where graybeard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stops to trace 40 The parlor splendors of that festive place ; The whitewashed wall, the nicely-sanded... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 ページ
...nut-brown draughts insnir'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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 ページ
...draughts inspir'd, Where 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... | |
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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. 
