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Peter Puzzlewell. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY AVARDIANA HAR ISTO ET VERI CADEM CH TAS INONOVEAN ECCLE THE GIFT OF EDWARD PERCIVAL MERRITT OF BOSTON Class of 1882 V A 1873 . CHOICE COLLECTION OF RIDDLES , CHARADES KC 401.
Peter Puzzlewell. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY AVARDIANA HAR ISTO ET VERI CADEM CH TAS INONOVEAN ECCLE THE GIFT OF EDWARD PERCIVAL MERRITT OF BOSTON Class of 1882 V A 1873 . CHOICE COLLECTION OF RIDDLES , CHARADES KC 401.
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Peter Puzzlewell. V A 1873 . CHOICE COLLECTION OF RIDDLES , CHARADES , AND CONUNDRUMS . BY PETER PUZZLEWELL , Esq . OF REBUS HALL . LONDON : JOHN HARRIS , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH YARD . 1835 . HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF EDWARD PERCIVAL ...
Peter Puzzlewell. V A 1873 . CHOICE COLLECTION OF RIDDLES , CHARADES , AND CONUNDRUMS . BY PETER PUZZLEWELL , Esq . OF REBUS HALL . LONDON : JOHN HARRIS , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH YARD . 1835 . HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF EDWARD PERCIVAL ...
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... One other hint to this account I give , That what I am you easily may guess ; Whether you sleep or wake , or die or live , " Tis I alone the action can express . IN spring I look gay , Deck'd in comely array RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
... One other hint to this account I give , That what I am you easily may guess ; Whether you sleep or wake , or die or live , " Tis I alone the action can express . IN spring I look gay , Deck'd in comely array RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
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... — A magazine of art . The whitest hands that secret hoard Oft visit and the fair : Preserve it , in their bosoms stored , As with a miser's care . Thence implements of every size , And form'd for various ∞ RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
... — A magazine of art . The whitest hands that secret hoard Oft visit and the fair : Preserve it , in their bosoms stored , As with a miser's care . Thence implements of every size , And form'd for various ∞ RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
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... not so by art ; The art not my own , but my neighbour's ; If you suffer by me , Your own fault it must be , And you'll e'en have your pains for your labours . EMBLEM of youth and innocence , With thorns enclos'd , 12 RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
... not so by art ; The art not my own , but my neighbour's ; If you suffer by me , Your own fault it must be , And you'll e'en have your pains for your labours . EMBLEM of youth and innocence , With thorns enclos'd , 12 RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
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12 engravings 16 ditto 24 engravings Abbé amusement ancient appear attend Author Battle of Waterloo beauty birth blooming boast bound in cloth breast bright Burmese War CHARADE Charlemagne charms CHRO cloth and leather coloured dark delight despised Dorset Street e'er earth England fame fire Fleet Street flowers form'd FRENCH LANGUAGE Game give GLET half bound head heart HOFLAND honour Illustrated Instructive ISAAC TAYLOR kings KINGS of ENGLAND ladies land learned Lessons maps moral nature ne'er never night numerous o'er pain Picts plain plates pleasure Price QUADRUPEDS RACTERS reign rich RIDDLE Saxons Second Edition second s a seen SEUM shew sometimes square 16mo Stories strange syllables Tale thing Third Edition thor tion toil TOMMY TRIP'S Tree VOLUME whole wond'rous wood cuts word ye fair young youth
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Page 97 - THE VOWELS We are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features; One of us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet. T'other you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue, It can never fly from you.
Page 52 - I'm now a sail, and now a mast. I here am red, and there am green, A beggar there, and here a queen. I sometimes live in a house of hair, And oft in hand of lady fair. I please the young, I grace the old, And am at once both hot and cold Say what I am then, if you can, And find the rhyme, and you're the man.