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" JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after. "
An Essay on the Archæology of Our Popular Phrases and Nursery Rhymes - Page 264
by John Bellenden Ker - 1837
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Volumes 29-30

Languages, Modern - 1861 - 996 pages
...ändern, в. Dick. Little D. II, 44. — Jack and Gill. Alter Reim: Jack and Gill went up a hill to fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown and Gill Archiv t. л. Sprachen. XXX. P came tumbling after. Auch ein Spiel scheint darnach benannt zu...
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Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas

Sabine Baring-Gould, Alfred Newton - Birds - 1863 - 576 pages
...with which they are surrounded. I can only instance one : — " Jack and Jill went up a hill To fetch a pail of water ; Jack fell down, and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after." These two children are mentioned in the Younger Edda, under the names of Hjiiki and Bil (which have...
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The North-western Monthly: A Magazine Devoted to University ..., Volume 8

Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...strongly accented time movement that are a delight to the child. "Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown. And Jill came tumbling after." "As he trudged along to school It was always Johnny's rule To be looking at the sky Ana the clouds...
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Continental and Oriental Travels: Being Excursions in France, Italy, Egypt ...

John Brocklebank - 1865 - 386 pages
...Gentleman not at all frightened, — not at all frightened ! — Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water ; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after." About half way up, we halted to gain breath, when I was lustily plied with the importunate " bucksheesh."...
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The British Poets, Volume 2

1865 - 436 pages
...apologue of Jack and Jill. Jack, of course, represents the State in this ingenious little Allegory. Jack fell down, And broke his Crown, And Jill came tumbling after. * That model of Princes, the Emperor Commodns, was particularly luxurious in the dressing and ornamenting...
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A New Atmosphere

Gail Hamilton - Etiquette for young women - 1865 - 352 pages
...gives the whole history of man and woman in a nutshell : — " Jack and Gill Went up the hill To draw a pail of water ; Jack fell down And broke his crown. And Gill came tumbling after." Men have a way of falling back on Eve's transgression, as if that were a...
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Curious Myths of the Middle Ages

Sabine Baring-Gould - Folklore - 1866 - 260 pages
...between them. Are we not reminded at once of our nursery rhyme — "Jack and Jill went up a hill To fetch a pail of water ; Jack fell down, and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after ?" This verse, which to us seems at first sight nonsense, I have no hesitation in saying has a high...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 122

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1867 - 606 pages
...Are we not thus reminded at once of our nursery rhyme V — " Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water, Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after." This verse, which to us seems at first sight nonsense, I have no hesitation in saying has a high antiquity,...
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The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted ..., Volume 6

Robert Hall Baynes - 1869 - 686 pages
...they were so called. Every one remembers the old rhyme, — " Jack and Jill went up a hill, To fefch a pail of water, Jack fell down and broke- his crown, And Jill came tumbling after." squints, are said to be ken-specked. Kenning is a measure by which a quantity is ascertained or known....
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Chambers's national reading-books. Chambers's first national reading book

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1867 - 136 pages
...clock struck one, The mouse was gone; 0, U, T, spells OUT ! Jack and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of wa-ter; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tum-bling after. PUSS AND THE MICE, Puss head your door wise dead love floor eyes thread come think Three mice went...
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