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... fame , and wealth : With pow'rful arm dispensing wide Both good and ill on ev'ry side . Perhaps there are , whose grateful song Will laud my deeds , and love me long ; Perhaps there are , who mourn my reign , As fraught with tyranny and ...
... fame , and wealth : With pow'rful arm dispensing wide Both good and ill on ev'ry side . Perhaps there are , whose grateful song Will laud my deeds , and love me long ; Perhaps there are , who mourn my reign , As fraught with tyranny and ...
Page 19
... fame . But though when whole ( as I have said before ) I seldom visit famed Britannia's shore , Yet , when one third is taken from my name , I then am known to many a British dame . When whole , I often sweep both dale and hill- RIDDLES ...
... fame . But though when whole ( as I have said before ) I seldom visit famed Britannia's shore , Yet , when one third is taken from my name , I then am known to many a British dame . When whole , I often sweep both dale and hill- RIDDLES ...
Page 56
... fame , and speak my character . Ten thousand vassals at my levee stand , Come when I call , and move at my command . By me inspired , men keep or break the peace ; I fire their rage , or make their fury cease . Myself obnoxious to a ...
... fame , and speak my character . Ten thousand vassals at my levee stand , Come when I call , and move at my command . By me inspired , men keep or break the peace ; I fire their rage , or make their fury cease . Myself obnoxious to a ...
Page 72
... fame , By curious artists of no vulgar name ; The gay delight of laughing girls and boys , In youth's best prime , intent on fleeting joys ; Fond of th ' illusions fancy's pencil draws , And ever prone to view me with applause . Averse ...
... fame , By curious artists of no vulgar name ; The gay delight of laughing girls and boys , In youth's best prime , intent on fleeting joys ; Fond of th ' illusions fancy's pencil draws , And ever prone to view me with applause . Averse ...
Page 102
... that can transmit the patriot's name , Sacred to ages , on the lists of fame : Yet short my date of life , however high ; Soon I'm worn out , and then neglected die . RIDDLE CLVIII . you my I'm a term often used 102 RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
... that can transmit the patriot's name , Sacred to ages , on the lists of fame : Yet short my date of life , however high ; Soon I'm worn out , and then neglected die . RIDDLE CLVIII . you my I'm a term often used 102 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.