Harding's fables for young folks [in verse]. |
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... wing to roam , But rest content with health and ease , And their own humble pow'rs to please . Contented all should pass through life , To seek ambition causes strife . } No. 3 . THE SNAKE AND THE NIGHTINGALES . A 16 RETALIATION .
... wing to roam , But rest content with health and ease , And their own humble pow'rs to please . Contented all should pass through life , To seek ambition causes strife . } No. 3 . THE SNAKE AND THE NIGHTINGALES . A 16 RETALIATION .
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... seek thro ' life , For idleness engenders strife . Ye wise , whose proudest , noblest aim , Is center'd in a spotless name , Exert yourselves , where'er you be , And give your minds to industry . Thus occupied , you ne'er will roam From ...
... seek thro ' life , For idleness engenders strife . Ye wise , whose proudest , noblest aim , Is center'd in a spotless name , Exert yourselves , where'er you be , And give your minds to industry . Thus occupied , you ne'er will roam From ...
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... seek to find their meaning out : True friendship time alone can show- Who trusts too soon , may work his woe . The Wasp , alone , then first began To study how he should trepan The Ant , whose speech he could not brook , And soon the ...
... seek to find their meaning out : True friendship time alone can show- Who trusts too soon , may work his woe . The Wasp , alone , then first began To study how he should trepan The Ant , whose speech he could not brook , And soon the ...
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... seek not for money , They ever show a taste for honey ; And numbers , from their hillock green , Came forth to share the festive scene . When the base foe , with malice fraught , Believ'd he had his victims caught , Then to the hive ...
... seek not for money , They ever show a taste for honey ; And numbers , from their hillock green , Came forth to share the festive scene . When the base foe , with malice fraught , Believ'd he had his victims caught , Then to the hive ...
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... seek revenge but where ' tis due . From Ants I ne'er in all my life Receiv'd the slightest sign of strife ; So prithee make that race amends , By now becoming better friends . As noble friends should not forego By noble deeds that 30 ...
... seek revenge but where ' tis due . From Ants I ne'er in all my life Receiv'd the slightest sign of strife ; So prithee make that race amends , By now becoming better friends . As noble friends should not forego By noble deeds that 30 ...
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Affection's Rose Allegory Ants bird blest bold BOND-STREET born to regal C. T. HARDING Catina caus'd CHAPMAN AND ELCOATE CLIFFORD-STREET COWSLIP cried Daisy dear Grassy doom'd e'en e'er earth England's budding Envious Roses ev'ry exclaim'd faithless fav'rite flew Flora flow'rets flower Forget-me-not frolic GRASSHOPPER AND ROSETTA happy Hawes heart HONEST TRAY hopp'd humble joy of fate Kite LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS LAZY BRUIN Lily Macfarren Magpie MARCHAND DE BOUQUETS Miss Maria moons have pass'd mortals Mousy MOUSYLINA THE WILD Myrtle Bower natal day ne'er nigh numbers nursed in Fancy's o'er Parrot pow'r pray prey Princess Royal prithee race Reed replied roam Royal Highness seek seiz'd sheep Shepherd Boy SILKWORM silly SNAKE Song soon speech spleen sportive strife sweet thee thing tree TURTLE DOVES Twas Twelve waning moons Twill vale Violet Wasp wing Wisdom's yonder YOUNG FOLKS Young Leaf younglings
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Page 60 - A PRETTY blue-eyed laughing flower Grew wildly near a myrtle bower, Where many roses graced the spot, Who envied the — Forget-me-not. " Ah, simple flower !" the roses cried, " You boast a power to us denied; You speak the language of the heart, Whilst fragrance only we impart.
Page 3 - Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. AND MANY OF THE NOBILITY, CLERGY, GENTRY, &C.