Excursions Into Puzzledom: A Book of Charades, Acrostics, Enigmas, Conundrums, &c

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Strahan and Company, 1879 - 420 pagine
 

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Pagina 314 - And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers. The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace.
Pagina 169 - A SWARM of bees in May Is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly.
Pagina 280 - Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm, His pipe was in his mouth, And he watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now West, now South.
Pagina 177 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Pagina 136 - The ram, the bull, the heavenly twins, And next the crab the lion shines, The virgin and the scales, The scorpion, archer, and sea-goat, The man that holds the watering-pot, And fish with glittering tails.
Pagina 349 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Pagina 281 - kiss the rod," and be resign'd Beneath the stroke, and even find Some sugar in the cane ! The Arabian Nights rehearsed in bed ! The Fairy Tales in school-time read, By stealth, 'twixt verb and noun ! The angel form that always...
Pagina 46 - THERE was an old woman, as I've heard tell, She went to market her eggs for to sell ; She went to market all on a market day. And she fell asleep on the king's highway.
Pagina 408 - Let us understand, then, that it should be our aim in learning, not merely to know the one thing which is to be our principal occupation, as well as it can be known, but to do this and also to know something of all the great subjects of human interest ; taking care to know that something accurately, marking well the dividing line between what we know accurately and what we do not...
Pagina 281 - THE book is completed, And closed, like the day; And the hand that has written it Lays it away. Dim grow its fancies; Forgotten they lie; Like coals in the ashes They darken and die.

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