 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...'twas white. Both stared ; the man looked wondrous wise. " My children." the Chameleon cries — Then first the creature found a tongue — " You all are...wonder if you find that none Prefers your eyesight to his own." THE FRIAR OF ORDERS GRAY. THOMAS PERCY. — 1728-1811. [THE editor of the celebrated " Reliques... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...'twas white. Both stared, the man look'd wondrous wise— " My children," the Cameleon cries (Then first the creature found a tongue), " You all are...wonder, if you find that none Prefers your eyesight to his own." TOBIAS G. SMOLLETT. (1721-1771.) ODE TO LEVEN WATER. ON Leven's banks, while free to rove,... | |
 | Toiling - Christianity - 1870 - 268 pages
...'twas white/ Both stared : the man looked wondrous wise : ' My children,' the chameleon cries, (Then first the creature found a tongue), ' You all are...wonder if you find that none Prefers your eye-sight to his own.' " Near the pretty little village of Grasmere rises a bluff low hill, a steep climb; set by... | |
 | Favourite fables - 1870 - 292 pages
...'twas white. Both stared, the man looked wondrous wise. " My children," the Chameleon cries, (Then first the creature found a tongue), "You all are right...wonder, if you find that none Prefers your eye-sight to his own." FABLE CV. THE WOLF, THE FOX, AND THE ASS. THE Lion, as king of the beasts, made a law that... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1870 - 152 pages
...'twas white. Both stared ; the man looked wondrous wise — " My children," the Chameleon cries (Then first the creature found a tongue), " You all are...wonder if you find that none Prefers your eyesight to his own." JAMES MERRICK, 1720 — 1769. THE TKAVELLEK'S RETTJKK SWEET to the morning traveller The... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1870 - 156 pages
...'twas white. Epth stared ; the man looked womlrous wise — " My children," the Chameleon cries (Then first the creature found a tongue), " You all are...wonder if you find that none Prefers your eyesight to his own." JAMES MERRICK, 1720—1769. THE TRAVELLEE'S RETURN. SWEET to the morning traveller The skylark's... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - American literature - 1871 - 342 pages
...was white. XI, Both stared ; the man looked wondrous wise : " My children," the chameleon cries (Then first the creature found a tongue), " You all are...wonder if you find that none Prefers your eyesight to his own." Merrick. EXERCISE. IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES THE SCHOLAR WILL CHANGE AS MANY WORDS OB PHRASES... | |
 | 1784 - 378 pages
...'twas white. Both star'd, the man look'd wondrous wise — " My children," the Camelion cries, Then first the creature found a tongue, " You all are right,...wonder, if you find that none Prefers your eye-sight to his own." FABLE XI. BCfje Wssm CHarmmjs. THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 200 pages
...(Then first the creature found a tongue,) " You are all right, and all are wrong ! When next you speak of what you view, Think others see, as well as you : Nor wonder if you find that none Prefer your eye-sight to their own." *.* Refer If possible to a work on Natural History, and enter... | |
 | Young people - 1871 - 686 pages
...several others, being entitled to that honour. No w we are inclined to say with the chameleon— " When first the creature found a tongue, You all are right, and all are wrong." That is, the invention belongs to no one man in all probability ; but that one started the idea, another... | |
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I'll eat him." He said : then full before their sight Produced the beast, and lo! — 'twas white. Both stared, the man looked wondrous wise — "My children," the chameleon cries, (Then first the creature found a tongue), "You all are right, and all... 
