 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 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 parlour splendours of that festive place ; The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 ページ
...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-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 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 Thu parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 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 whitewashed wall, the nicely-sanded... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 ページ
...nut-brown draughts inspired, Where graybeard mirth, and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. f< Imagination fondly stoops to trace The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd... | |
 | Henry Charlton Beck - 1983 - 368 ページ
...hands and held them, saying over and over: "Old friends." ROADS UNDER WATER "Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round" OLIVER GOLDSMITH THIS GALLIVANTING WITH A GHOST had been only an interlude. Actually I was still at... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 ページ
...as in a capital tavern. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 ページ
...Liberation, "The Bar as Microcosm" (ed. by Leslie B. Tanner, 1970). 6 Where village statesmen talked b. 1 936), US physicist. Gettysburg Review (Summer 1989; repr. in H OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-74), Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. The Deserted Village. 7 There is... | |
 | Lawrence J. Taylor - 1995 - 308 ページ
...the passing eye. Low lies the house where nut-brown draughts inspired. Where village statesmen talked with looks profound. And news much older than their ale, went round. . . . No more the farmer's news, the pedlar's tale. No more the boatsman's ballad shall prevail; No... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 ページ
...of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution. Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, (1728-1774) 4 There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well... | |
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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. 
