 | Elias Nason - Boston (Mass.) - 1865 - 146 pages
...and flames of fire. In a very pleasant poem, John G. Saxe thus alludes to him and his performances. I recollect the nervous man, Within whose hat the...died at an advanced age, and is buried at Andover, N". H., where he spent the last few years of his life. He left something of an estate to his descendants.... | |
 | Elias Nason - Boston (Mass.) - 1865 - 152 pages
...Which the magician rent asunder, Ami then restored ; but best of all, I recollect the ribbon wonder. 1 mean, of course, the funny freak In which the wizard,...died at an advanced age, and is buried at Andover, N". H., where he spent the last few years of his life. He left something of an estate to his descendants.... | |
 | Elias Nason - Boston (Mass.) - 1865 - 148 pages
...And others charm our suns mtd danghters : Years, years have flod, alas! how quick! Since I beheld tho great magician : And yet I've seen the ribbon trick...left something of an estate to his descendants. A danghter of Dinah, born in March, 1775, and hearing the name of Julia Titus, was living in 1800 in... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - History - 1866 - 262 pages
...with the immortal " Potter's " ; He 's dead and buried long ago, And other wizards take the quarters ; Years — years have fled — alas ! how quick, Since I beheld the Great Magician, And yet I 've seen the Ribbon-Trick THE BLARNEY STONE. I. IN Blarney Castle, on a crumbling tower, There lies... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1882 - 338 pages
...and yellow! I ne'er shall see another show To rank with the immortal " Potter's ";8 He 's dead nnd buried long ago, And others charm our sons and daughters;...quick. Since I beheld the Great Magician. And yet I 've seen the RibbonTrick In many a curious repetition! Thus, when an author I have rend Who much... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - American poetry - 1882 - 278 pages
...To rank with the immortal "Potter's " ; 3 He 's dead and buried long ago, And others charm our sous and daughters ; Years — years have fled — alas...quick, Since I beheld the Great Magician, And yet I 've seen the Ribbon-Trick In many a curious repetition ! Thus, when an author I have read Who much... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - History - 1866 - 246 pages
...ne'er shall see another show To rank with the immortal " Potter's " ; He 's dead and buried long ago, Years — years have fled — alas ! how quick, Since I beheld the Great Magician, And yet I Ve seen the Eibbon-Trick In many a curious repetition ! Thus, when an author I have read "Who much... | |
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em at his leisure ; Yard after yard of every hue Came blazing out, and still the fellow, Keeps spinning ribbons red and blue And black and white and green and yellow. I ne'er shall see another show, To rank with the immortal POTTER'S ; He's dead and buried... 