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... land My bounty too partake ; I paint the insect's trembling wing , And gild the crested snake . Survey the nations of the deep , You'll there my power behold ; My pencil drew the pearly scale , And fin bedropt with gold . I give the ...
... land My bounty too partake ; I paint the insect's trembling wing , And gild the crested snake . Survey the nations of the deep , You'll there my power behold ; My pencil drew the pearly scale , And fin bedropt with gold . I give the ...
Page 43
... land E'er join'd such numbers hand in hand ; I join them fairly with a ring , Nor can our parson blame the thing ; And though no marriage words are spoke , They part not till the ring is broke . Yet hypocrite fanatics cry , I'm but an ...
... land E'er join'd such numbers hand in hand ; I join them fairly with a ring , Nor can our parson blame the thing ; And though no marriage words are spoke , They part not till the ring is broke . Yet hypocrite fanatics cry , I'm but an ...
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... robes of virgin innocence array'd , As white as priest in new - wash'd surplice clad ; Yet they are said , like others in the land , To have an evil heart and griping hand . } RIDDLE C. Two brothers we are , yet can't hope. RIDDLE XCIX . ..
... robes of virgin innocence array'd , As white as priest in new - wash'd surplice clad ; Yet they are said , like others in the land , To have an evil heart and griping hand . } RIDDLE C. Two brothers we are , yet can't hope. RIDDLE XCIX . ..
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... land , The second takes me by the hand , Presses me close , with care and skill , And makes me do whate'er she will . I cannot boast of many charms- I've neither feet , nor legs , nor arms ; But all allow I have an eye , So fine , it ...
... land , The second takes me by the hand , Presses me close , with care and skill , And makes me do whate'er she will . I cannot boast of many charms- I've neither feet , nor legs , nor arms ; But all allow I have an eye , So fine , it ...
Page 102
... land I still can bear the ensign of command . Silent , I speak ; my voice in every clime Is heard , and shall be to remotest time . Honour and praise of right to me belong ; " Tis I immortalize the poet's song ; ' Tis I that can ...
... land I still can bear the ensign of command . Silent , I speak ; my voice in every clime Is heard , and shall be to remotest time . Honour and praise of right to me belong ; " Tis I immortalize the poet's song ; ' Tis I that can ...
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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.