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... is done . One other hint to this account I give , That what I am you easily may guess ; Whether you sleep or wake , or die or live , " Tis I alone the action can express . IN spring I look gay , Deck'd in comely array RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
... is done . One other hint to this account I give , That what I am you easily may guess ; Whether you sleep or wake , or die or live , " Tis I alone the action can express . IN spring I look gay , Deck'd in comely array RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
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... live most lovingly together . When spring returns , with blooming flow'rets gay , My fickle inmates from my shelter stray ; And through the summer months inconstant roam , Till winter's cold recals the wanderers home . RIDDLE XXVI . My ...
... live most lovingly together . When spring returns , with blooming flow'rets gay , My fickle inmates from my shelter stray ; And through the summer months inconstant roam , Till winter's cold recals the wanderers home . RIDDLE XXVI . My ...
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... lose the same ; And when I'm laid within the tomb , I do my father's name assume : I change my name three days together , Yet live but one in any weather . RIDDLE XXXV . SIXTEEN adjectives , twenty - four pronouns 28 RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
... lose the same ; And when I'm laid within the tomb , I do my father's name assume : I change my name three days together , Yet live but one in any weather . RIDDLE XXXV . SIXTEEN adjectives , twenty - four pronouns 28 RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
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... lives beneath the sky , Can secrets keep so faithfully as I ; All things for safety are to me consign'd , Although I often leave them far behind ; I never act but by another's will , And what he should command I must fulfil . RIDDLE L ...
... lives beneath the sky , Can secrets keep so faithfully as I ; All things for safety are to me consign'd , Although I often leave them far behind ; I never act but by another's will , And what he should command I must fulfil . RIDDLE L ...
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... live in 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 . Now meditate and duly scan , And tell my title if you can . A OF a brave set of brethren I stand at 52 ...
... live in 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 . Now meditate and duly scan , And tell my title if you can . A OF a brave set of brethren I stand at 52 ...
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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.