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... fears ; To some gave joy , to others health ; To some gave grandeur , 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 ...
... fears ; To some gave joy , to others health ; To some gave grandeur , 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 ...
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Peter Puzzlewell. RIDDLE LXXXI . I often can call forth impressions of fear , And the eye I can sometimes bedew with a tear ; I also can make it with pleasure look bright , And cause it to beam with a sense of delight . Again , I am ...
Peter Puzzlewell. RIDDLE LXXXI . I often can call forth impressions of fear , And the eye I can sometimes bedew with a tear ; I also can make it with pleasure look bright , And cause it to beam with a sense of delight . Again , I am ...
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... crimes Pollute the soil . Pale avarice triumphs there ; Hate , envy , rage , and heart - destroying care , With fraud and fear , and comfortless despair . F Their government not long remains the same ; Now they. RIDDLE XCVII .
... crimes Pollute the soil . Pale avarice triumphs there ; Hate , envy , rage , and heart - destroying care , With fraud and fear , and comfortless despair . F Their government not long remains the same ; Now they. RIDDLE XCVII .
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... , nor legs , nor arms ; But all allow I have an eye , So fine , it may with beauty vie . I fear I many wounds impart , Shed blood , but never touch the heart . They who would contemplate my end , ( For that's RIDDLE CVIII .
... , nor legs , nor arms ; But all allow I have an eye , So fine , it may with beauty vie . I fear I many wounds impart , Shed blood , but never touch the heart . They who would contemplate my end , ( For that's RIDDLE CVIII .
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... a fav'rite symbol wore The hi'roglyphic of his barbarous power . Let us admit that gallantry or pride , A thirst of glory , honour for its guide , Or martial prowess , enemy to fears , Increased my RIDDLES AND CHARADES . 89.
... a fav'rite symbol wore The hi'roglyphic of his barbarous power . Let us admit that gallantry or pride , A thirst of glory , honour for its guide , Or martial prowess , enemy to fears , Increased my RIDDLES AND CHARADES . 89.
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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.