"a double debt to pay" (in De Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater") (original) (raw)

a double debt to pay — this quotation comes from Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village in which he is describing the interior of a cottage. The section reads:

The chest contrived a double debt to pay,
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

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