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... tale ne'er told before . To boast of birth were spending time in vain Ere Moses liv'd , began my direful reign , And since , I've oft been seen at various times , In diff'rent nations and in diff'rent climes . Though ' tis a long , for ...
... tale ne'er told before . To boast of birth were spending time in vain Ere Moses liv'd , began my direful reign , And since , I've oft been seen at various times , In diff'rent nations and in diff'rent climes . Though ' tis a long , for ...
Page 38
... tale , but treach'rous in my word ; Light as the breeze that skims the landscape o'er , I speed my course , and run from shore to shore . From realms that burn with everlasting glow , To polar regions of eternal snow : — First strike ...
... tale , but treach'rous in my word ; Light as the breeze that skims the landscape o'er , I speed my course , and run from shore to shore . From realms that burn with everlasting glow , To polar regions of eternal snow : — First strike ...
Page 80
... tales to prove Their near alliance to the thunderer , Jove ; More justly I supernal birth may claim , From Heaven I sprang , and Heaven bestow'd The Almighty Ruler of the earth and sky Approved me well , and angels sang for joy . To ...
... tales to prove Their near alliance to the thunderer , Jove ; More justly I supernal birth may claim , From Heaven I sprang , and Heaven bestow'd The Almighty Ruler of the earth and sky Approved me well , and angels sang for joy . To ...
Page 89
... tale remind ye , E'er it be too late to think . " Tis not by ourselves caressing , We can ever happy prove ; Every true and real blessing Friendship gives , when join'd to love . RIDDLE CXXXIV . YE famed enigmatists , pray now disclose ...
... tale remind ye , E'er it be too late to think . " Tis not by ourselves caressing , We can ever happy prove ; Every true and real blessing Friendship gives , when join'd to love . RIDDLE CXXXIV . YE famed enigmatists , pray now disclose ...
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... tale 135 125 27. Lap - pet 135 125 28. Wo - man • 136 126 29. O ' - live . 136 127 30. Cat - a - comb • 137 128 31. Pat - ten . 138 15. Pil - grim 16. Hour - glass . 128 32. Peer - less 138 129 33. Eye - lash 138 17. Gold Watch 130 34 ...
... tale 135 125 27. Lap - pet 135 125 28. Wo - man • 136 126 29. O ' - live . 136 127 30. Cat - a - comb • 137 128 31. Pat - ten . 138 15. Pil - grim 16. Hour - glass . 128 32. Peer - less 138 129 33. Eye - lash 138 17. Gold Watch 130 34 ...
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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.