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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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... ambitious court her smiles : -only the wise Both her and all her gilded pomp despise ; Her fairy kingdom , her fantastic good , Remote , alluring ; nothing , nearer view'd . C RIDDLE XXI . ATTEND , ye fair maidens , awhile RIDDLE XX .
... ambitious court her smiles : -only the wise Both her and all her gilded pomp despise ; Her fairy kingdom , her fantastic good , Remote , alluring ; nothing , nearer view'd . C RIDDLE XXI . ATTEND , ye fair maidens , awhile RIDDLE XX .
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Peter Puzzlewell. RIDDLE XXI . ATTEND , ye fair maidens , awhile , I pray you attend to my lay ; And should I awaken a smile , My trouble that smile will repay . Go quickly , and search in the bowers , There cull the sweet rose in its ...
Peter Puzzlewell. RIDDLE XXI . ATTEND , ye fair maidens , awhile , I pray you attend to my lay ; And should I awaken a smile , My trouble that smile will repay . Go quickly , and search in the bowers , There cull the sweet rose in its ...
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... fair and aid their Christmas sport ; Begs their attention to his mystic lore , And hopes to tell a 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 ...
... fair and aid their Christmas sport ; Begs their attention to his mystic lore , And hopes to tell a 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 ...
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... to set me loose . Then , polish'd by the artist's hands , In wood I'm closely bound ; And where fair learning calls her sons , My ready help is found . To me the sciences are known ; In Algebra I 20 RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
... to set me loose . Then , polish'd by the artist's hands , In wood I'm closely bound ; And where fair learning calls her sons , My ready help is found . To me the sciences are known ; In Algebra I 20 RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
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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.