...that festive place ; The white- wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by...royal game of goose — The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay — While broken tea-caps, wisely kept...

...nicely-sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by...royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay; While broken tea cups, wisely kept...

...nicely-sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door : The chest, contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by...use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.' " Captain Hogan, I have heard, found great difficulty in obtaining ' the twelve good rules,' but at...

...nicely-sanded floor, The varnish' d clock that click'd behind the door: The chest, contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by...use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.' " Captain Hogan, I have heard, found great difficulty in obtaining ' the twelve good rules,' but at...

...clock that click' d \>e\xm& l\ve, The chest contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a ohest of drawers by day ; The pictures placed for ornament...royal game of goose ; The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers and fennel, gay; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept...

...alehouse has its parlor walls decorated with these scriptural illustrations, which seem to have superseded "The pictures placed for ornament and use ; The twelve good rules ; the royal game of goose," mentioned by Goldsmith as characteristic of a village inn. These "Jew pictures" are now yielding to...

...nicely-sanded floor, The varnished clock that ticked behind the door; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by...show, Ranged o'er the chimnev, glistened in a row. Mrs. Hemans thus describes a mother's love ; There is none In all this cold and hollow world, no fount...

...became the winner's property. In his poem The Deserted Village published in 1770 Oliver Goldsmith wrote: The pictures place'd for ornament and use, The Twelve good rules, the Royal Game of Goose. The games of pure amusement were soon followed by a host of others based on the same principles and designed...

...smoking Tyde. (Pope, The Rapt of the Lock in, lines 1o9-1o) The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for shew, Rang'd o'er the chimney, glistened in a row. (Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 1 77°)' When...

...nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by...royal game of goose; The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay, While broken tea-cups, wisely kept...