 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1770 - 44 pagina’s
...draughts infpired, Where grey-beard mirth and fmiling toil retired, Where village ftatefmen talked 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-wafhed wall, the nicely fanded... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1771 - 590 pagina’s
...draughts inspired, Where grey-beard mirth and fmiling toil retiree, Where village ilatefmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly (loops to trace The parlour fplendours of that feftive place ; The white- warned wall, the nicely-fancied... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1774 - 70 pagina’s
...draughts infpired, Where grey-beard mirth and fmiling toil retired, Where village ftatefmen talked 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-wafhed wall, the nicely fanded... | |
 | 1785 - 316 pagina’s
...nut-brown draught* infpir'd, Where grey-beard mirth and fmiling toil retir'd, Where village ftatefmen 'talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly ftoops to trace, The parlour fplendors of that feftive place f The white-wafh'd wall, the siceiy-fanded... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - 1785 - 544 pagina’s
...nut-brown draught? infpir'd, Where grey-beard mirth, and fmiling toil retir'd ; Where village ftatefmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly ftoops to trace, The parlour fplendors of that feftive place ; The white-wafh'd wall, the nicely fanded... | |
 | 1785 - 320 pagina’s
...nut-brown draughts infpirM, "here grey-beard mirth and fmiling toil retir'd, "We village ftatefmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Pagination fondly floops to trace, flit parlour fplendors of that feflive place ; flic white-wafh'd... | |
 | William Scott - 1789 - 416 pagina’s
...draughts iriTpir'd;: \Vliere gra*beard mirth, and ftnilbg toil, retir'd ; Where village- flat efmen talk'd .-with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly (loops, to trace The parloiuvfplendours of that feftive-place : — The white-wafli'd wall ; the niceIy-fanded... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 206 pagina’s
...ut-brown dranghtsinfpir'd, Where grey-beard mirth, and fmiling toil retir'd, Where village ftatefmen talk'd with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly (loops to trace The parlour fplendors of that feftive place ; The white-waflt'd wall* the nicely fanded... | |
 | 1792 - 112 pagina’s
...nut-brown draughts infpir'dj Where grey-beard mirth, and Irniling toil retir'd, Where village ftatefmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly ftoops to trace The parlour fplendors of that feftive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely fanded... | |
 | James Roach - 1792 - 284 pagina’s
...nut-trown draughts infpir'd, Wheie grey-beard mirth, and finiling toil reuVd, "Where village flatefraen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly floops to trace The parlour fplendors of that feflive place ; The white-wafli'd wall, the nicely fanded... | |
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Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, 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... 
