 | Eliza Leslie - Amusements - 1831 - 336 pages
...Dutch doll. THIRTY-FIFTH. Perform the Dumb Orator. THMTr-SIXTH. ilepeat the list of WONDERFUL SIGHTS. I saw a peacock with a fiery tail, I saw a blazing comet pour down hail, I saw a cloud all wrapp'd with ivy round, I saw a lofty oak creep on the ground, I... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...a blazing star that dropt down hail I saw a cloud begirt with ivy round I saw a sturdy oak creep on the ground I saw a pismire swallow up a whale I saw the brackish sea brim full of ale I saw a phial £¿055 sixteen yards deep I saw a well full of men's tears... | |
 | Charles P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 438 pages
...a blazing star that dropt down hail 1 saw nclcritd begin with ivy round I saw a sturdy oak creep on the ground I saw a pismire swallow up a whale I saw tin; brackish tea brim full of ale I saw a phial glass sixteen yard« deep I saw a u'ell full of men's... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...know. 844. The following lines afford a good exercise, in the placing and use of the grammatical pause. I saw a peacock with a fiery tail I saw a blazing star that dropt down hail I saw ticloud begirt with ivy round saw a sturdy oak creep on the irround... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1846 - 266 pages
...five, Custom gives seven, Laziness takes nine, And Wickedness eleven. 476. [Mind your punctuation.] I SAW a peacock with a fiery tail, I saw a blazing...a cloud wrapped with ivy round, I saw an oak creep upon the ground, I saw a pismire swallow up a whale, I saw the sea brimful of ale, I saw a Venice glass... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1846 - 300 pages
...Custom gives seven! Laziness takes nine, And Wickedness eleven. CCCCLXXXV. [Mind your punctuation !] I SAW a peacock with a fiery tail, I saw a blazing...a cloud wrapped with ivy round, I saw an oak creep upon the ground, I saw a pismire swallow up a whale, I saw the sea brimful of ale, I saw a Venice glass... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1847 - 372 pages
...feast, I met wi' an ugly beast — • Ten tails, a hunder nails, And no a fit but ane. — A ship. I saw a peacock with a fiery tail, I saw a blazing comet pour down hail, I saw a cloud wrapt with ivy round, I saw an oak creeping on the ground, I saw a pismire... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - Amusements - 1853 - 434 pages
...Doll. THIRTY-FIFTH. — Perform the dumb orator. THIRTY-SIXTH. — Repeat the list of WONDERFUL SIGHTS. I saw a peacock with a fiery tail, I saw a blazing comet pour down hail, I saw a cloud all wrapp'd with ivy round, I saw a lofty oak creep on the ground, I... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1855 - 902 pages
...punctuation is the sense of composition. How many of our young readers can punctuate it as it should be done? I saw a peacock with a fiery tail I saw a blazing star that dropped down hail I saw a cloud begirt with ivy round I saw a sturdy oak creep on the ground... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...an author, • The necessity of sensible punctuation may be illustrated by the following lines : — I saw a peacock with a fiery tail I saw a blazing star that dropp'd down hail I saw a cloud begirt with ivy round I saw a sturdy oak creep on the ground... | |
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