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... stand , Sometimes a plain one , at command- And oft'ner none , -and so , adieu ! I'm sure I am well known to you . RIDDLE XXXI . In vain you struggle to regain me , When lost , you never can obtain me ; And yet , what's odd , you sigh ...
... stand , Sometimes a plain one , at command- And oft'ner none , -and so , adieu ! I'm sure I am well known to you . RIDDLE XXXI . In vain you struggle to regain me , When lost , you never can obtain me ; And yet , what's odd , you sigh ...
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... . Both by the savage and the saint My empire stands confess'd ; I thaw the ice on Greenland's coast , And fire the Scythian's breast . To me the gay aërial tribes Their glittering plumage owe RIDDLES AND CHARADES . 35.
... . Both by the savage and the saint My empire stands confess'd ; I thaw the ice on Greenland's coast , And fire the Scythian's breast . To me the gay aërial tribes Their glittering plumage owe RIDDLES AND CHARADES . 35.
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... dumb - some have language profuse- But two words are as much as most of us use : One little hint more , to give I think fit , - We all of us stand before we can sit . RIDDLE LII . WHAT power of the soul is that RIDDLES AND CHARADES . 39.
... dumb - some have language profuse- But two words are as much as most of us use : One little hint more , to give I think fit , - We all of us stand before we can sit . RIDDLE LII . WHAT power of the soul is that RIDDLES AND CHARADES . 39.
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... stand on head or heel , ' Tis all the same to you or me . But if my head should be cut off , The matter's true , although ' tis strange , My head and body sever'd thus , Immediately to nothing change . RIDDLE LXI . WHAT word is that ...
... stand on head or heel , ' Tis all the same to you or me . But if my head should be cut off , The matter's true , although ' tis strange , My head and body sever'd thus , Immediately to nothing change . RIDDLE LXI . WHAT word is that ...
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... 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 RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
... 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 RIDDLES AND CHARADES .
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Popular passages
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.