 | Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 370 trang
...their obscurity or simplicity. Most of them are long, but the following will serve as a specimen — " We are little airy creatures All of different voice...of us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet * Haynes writes, " I have known a gentleman of another turn of humour, who despises the name of author,... | |
 | 1879 - 448 trang
...We send a riddle which we should like to sec in the magazine. CARRIE B. COVE, and GERTRUDE M. GOVE. We are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features; One of us in gkiss is set, One of us you 'II find in jet; Another you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within... | |
 | Saint-Nicholas - 1879 - 844 trang
...NICHOLAS: We send a riddle which we^hould U kc to see m the magazine. CARRIE B. GOVK, and GERTRUDE M. GOVE. We are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features; One of u* in glass ¡s let, One of us you '11 find in jet; Another you may see in tin, And the fourth a box... | |
 | Fireside amusements - 1880 - 180 trang
...His father was not before him ; He did not live, he did not die, And his epitaph is not o'er him. 24. We are little airy creatures, All of different voice...us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet; One of us is met in tin ; And the fourth a box within : If the last you should pursue, It can never... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 trang
...world : Loud ..Etnas fulminate in love to man. Young, NT ix. 489. VOWELS. We are little airy ereatures, 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... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - 1882 - 204 trang
...The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two. DRYDEN. CXLII. ON THE VOWELS. WE are little airy creatures, All of...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... | |
 | Edmund Arthur Helps - 1882 - 136 trang
...long ; And to your window I will come, And thank you with a song. ON THE VOWELS. WE are airy little creatures, All of different voice and features ; One...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,1 It can never... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 528 trang
...before they dance ; There's not a soul that does resort here, But strips himself to pay the porter. ON THE VOWELS. WE are little airy creatures, All 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 528 trang
...before they dance ; There's not a soul that does resort here, But strips himself to pay the porter. ON THE VOWELS. WE are little airy creatures, All 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 528 trang
...before they dance ; There's not a soul that does resort here, But strips himself to pay the porter. ON THE VOWELS. WE are little airy creatures, All 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... | |
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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. 
