Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales: a Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of EnglandJ. Russell Smith, 1849 - 276 pages |
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... GAME - RHYMES . 101 ALPHABET - RHYMES . 136 RIDDLE - RHYMES . 141 • NATURE - SONGS 155 PROVERB - RHYMES . 181 PLACES AND FAMILIES . 188 SUPERSTITION - RHYMES . 206 CUSTOM - RHYMES . 230 NURSERY - SONGS . . 258 ERRATUM . - P . 181 , 1. 25 ,
... GAME - RHYMES . 101 ALPHABET - RHYMES . 136 RIDDLE - RHYMES . 141 • NATURE - SONGS 155 PROVERB - RHYMES . 181 PLACES AND FAMILIES . 188 SUPERSTITION - RHYMES . 206 CUSTOM - RHYMES . 230 NURSERY - SONGS . . 258 ERRATUM . - P . 181 , 1. 25 ,
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... Proverbs in 1659 , p . 20 , the story related to no less exalted a personage than an archdeacon : Archdeacon Pratt would eat no fatt , His wife would eat no lean ; " Twixt Archdeacon Pratt and Joan his wife , The meat was eat up clean ...
... Proverbs in 1659 , p . 20 , the story related to no less exalted a personage than an archdeacon : Archdeacon Pratt would eat no fatt , His wife would eat no lean ; " Twixt Archdeacon Pratt and Joan his wife , The meat was eat up clean ...
Page 109
... proverb . The reader will recollect what Butler says of Sir Edward Kelly , the celebrated conjuror , — Kelly did all his feats upon The devil's looking - glass , a stone : Where , playing with him at bo - peep , He solv'd all problems ...
... proverb . The reader will recollect what Butler says of Sir Edward Kelly , the celebrated conjuror , — Kelly did all his feats upon The devil's looking - glass , a stone : Where , playing with him at bo - peep , He solv'd all problems ...
Page 155
... proverb . The present version was heard in Essex . If there be a rainbow in the eve , It will rain and leave ; But if there be a rainbow in the morrow , It will neither lend nor borrow . WEATHER - RHYMES . The ev'ning red , and the ...
... proverb . The present version was heard in Essex . If there be a rainbow in the eve , It will rain and leave ; But if there be a rainbow in the morrow , It will neither lend nor borrow . WEATHER - RHYMES . The ev'ning red , and the ...
Page 156
... proverb is sufficiently homely , yet the first line reminds us of the description of the clouds in Anthony and Cleopatra , act iv . sc . 12 ; but the commonest ob- server must have seen the " tower'd citadel , " and the " pendant rock ...
... proverb is sufficiently homely , yet the first line reminds us of the description of the clouds in Anthony and Cleopatra , act iv . sc . 12 ; but the commonest ob- server must have seen the " tower'd citadel , " and the " pendant rock ...
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Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales: A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England ... James Orchard Halliwell No preview available - 2018 |
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