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... boast ; And , open'd , it displays to view , Twelve pages at the most . Nor name , nor title , stamp'd behind , Adorns its outer part ; But all within ' t is richly lined , — A magazine of art . The whitest hands that secret hoard Oft ...
... boast ; And , open'd , it displays to view , Twelve pages at the most . Nor name , nor title , stamp'd behind , Adorns its outer part ; But all within ' t is richly lined , — A magazine of art . The whitest hands that secret hoard Oft ...
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... 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 you a happy while , Since I ...
... 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 you a happy while , Since I ...
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... boast . RIDDLE XXIV . To a word of consent , add one half of a fright ; Next subjoin what you never beheld in the night : These rightly connected , you'll quickly obtain What numbers have seen , but will ne'er see again . RIDDLE XXV . I ...
... boast . RIDDLE XXIV . To a word of consent , add one half of a fright ; Next subjoin what you never beheld in the night : These rightly connected , you'll quickly obtain What numbers have seen , but will ne'er see again . RIDDLE XXV . I ...
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... boast , when for us , to our cost , We're afraid a worse fortune remains ; For if truth must be own'd , many thousands are found . Of our worthies now hanging in chains . RIDDLE XXXIV . BEFORE my birth I have a name , But soon as born I ...
... boast , when for us , to our cost , We're afraid a worse fortune remains ; For if truth must be own'd , many thousands are found . Of our worthies now hanging in chains . RIDDLE XXXIV . BEFORE my birth I have a name , But soon as born I ...
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... you see , ill fare , In giving you pretty good warning , That unless you take care , you will very And perhaps may be drown'd before morning . RIDDLE XLVI . FAIR one , I boast celestial date 34 RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
... you see , ill fare , In giving you pretty good warning , That unless you take care , you will very And perhaps may be drown'd before morning . RIDDLE XLVI . FAIR one , I boast celestial date 34 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.