Fireside amusementsW. & R. Chambers, 1880 - 159 頁 |
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acrostic amusing anagram answer breakfast call buy a rounded candle CHARADES choke a dog chronogram circle companions conundrum corner dance daughter ducks eyes faitent fat hen Fireside five pouting pigeons Five puppies buy flower Four horses stuck four plump partridges gaping garden-gate genteel lady girl give Good-morning goose Grand Mufti hand handkerchief head JACK STRAWS king of Bohemia Landlady Landlord laugh leader legs letter little old maid look looking-glass Lord Castlereagh love my Love Miss mother ne'er never old woman's apple-stall Panjandrum party pays a forfeit perform person Peter Piper piano play portmanteau pudding-ends would choke question rhyme RIDDLES rounded ball Sally says Seven lobsters shuttlecock Six beetles sixpence squawking wild geese St Ives stand tell Three monkeys tied three squawking wild trade Traveller tree uncon verses whole word
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第 72 頁 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume, And the bridemaidens whispered, " 'Twere better, by far, To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
第 40 頁 - My name is NORVAL: on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home.
第 71 頁 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
第 70 頁 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf, to make an apple-pie ; and at the same time a great she-bear coming up the street, pops its head into the shop.
第 41 頁 - That our good king had summon'd his bold peers To lead their warriors to the Carron side, I left my father's house, and took with me A chosen servant to conduct my steps : Yon trembling coward, who forsook his master.
第 108 頁 - HE talked of daggers and of darts, Of passions and of pains, Of weeping eyes and wounded hearts, Of kisses and of chains ; He said though Love was kin to Grief She was not born to grieve ; He said though many rued belief She safely might believe. But still the Lady shook her head, And swore by yea and nay My Whole was all that he had said, And all that he could say.
第 126 頁 - A babe whose beauty's half divine, In sleep his mother's eyes doth hide ; Where may love seek a fitter shrine Than thou — my own Fireside ? What care I for the sullen roar...
第 41 頁 - The road he took, then hasted to my friends; Whom with a troop of fifty chosen men, I met advancing. The pursuit I led, Till we o'ertook the spoil-encumber'd foe.
第 108 頁 - But still the lady shook her head, And swore by yea and nay, My Whole was all that he had said , •
第 126 頁 - And fill with tears of joy mine eyes ! What is there my wild heart can prize That doth not in thy sphere abide, Haunt of my home-bred sympathies, My own — my own Fireside...