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... seen But quick my transient reign was o'er , And they who saw shall see no more . > RIDDLE VII . WHAT disappointed persons are ; What tailors always do ; Our grandmothers ' delight declare , Though now despised by you . 10 I'm small of ...
... seen But quick my transient reign was o'er , And they who saw shall see no more . > RIDDLE VII . WHAT disappointed persons are ; What tailors always do ; Our grandmothers ' delight declare , Though now despised by you . 10 I'm small of ...
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... , black , white , or yellow , And is generally found in a beast , A creature pourtrays , which appears in the spring , And you often have seen , but never heard sing . RIDDLE XIII . PART of a tree - if right RIDDLES AND CHARADES . 11.
... , black , white , or yellow , And is generally found in a beast , A creature pourtrays , which appears in the spring , And you often have seen , but never heard sing . RIDDLE XIII . PART of a tree - if right RIDDLES AND CHARADES . 11.
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... seen at various times , In diff'rent nations and in diff'rent climes . Though ' tis a long , for you a happy while , Since I've been seen upon this favour'd isle , When I appear , how dreadful is my rage ! How keenly felt by ev'ry sex ...
... seen at various times , In diff'rent nations and in diff'rent climes . Though ' tis a long , for you a happy while , Since I've been seen upon this favour'd isle , When I appear , how dreadful is my rage ! How keenly felt by ev'ry sex ...
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... what you never beheld in the night : These rightly connected , you'll quickly obtain What numbers have seen , but will ne'er see again . RIDDLE XXV . I from Siberia's frozen realms am brought RIDDLES AND CHARADES . 21.
... what you never beheld in the night : These rightly connected , you'll quickly obtain What numbers have seen , but will ne'er see again . RIDDLE XXV . I from Siberia's frozen realms am brought RIDDLES AND CHARADES . 21.
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... seen , and every day have birth . With Adam I in Paradise was seen , When the vile serpent tempted Eve to sin ; And , since the fall , I with the human race Partake their shame and manifest disgrace . In the dark caverns of old ocean ...
... seen , and every day have birth . With Adam I in Paradise was seen , When the vile serpent tempted Eve to sin ; And , since the fall , I with the human race Partake their shame and manifest disgrace . In the dark caverns of old ocean ...
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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.