 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1903 - 858 pages
...can not refrain from one more statement of the second law, the oldest English version of it : Ilumpty Dumpty sat on a wall. , Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Can not put Ilumpty Dumpty together again. This is perhaps the most dignified of all the... | |
 | Alexander Meyrick Broadley - Egypt - 1884 - 614 pages
...infuriated bull. His present melancholy position recals a memory of our childhood : — " Humpty Dnmpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All...the king's horses and all the king's men Could not put Humpty Dumpty up again." Tewfik Pacha was once firmly seated on the wall of Egyptian Nationalism... | |
 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - 1884 - 296 pages
...your toes as you walk, — and remember who you are " Looking-glass" chap, ii., p. 45. JULT 29. UMPTY DUMPTY sat on a wall ; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall ; All the king's horses, and all the king's men, Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again. " Looking-glass? chap, vi., p. 115. JULT... | |
 | Alexander Meyrick Broadley - Egypt - 1884 - 582 pages
...an infuriated bull. His present melancholy position recals a memory of our childhood : — " Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All the kmg's horses and all the king's men Could not put Humpty Dnmpty np again." Tewfik Pacha was once firmly... | |
 | Folklore - 1921 - 444 pages
...teeth. (2) Thirty-two horses, Some on red hills, Some on blue hills. Ans. Teeth. 4. What's this ? Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All the king's horses an' all the king's men * Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together ! again.8 ( Variants.) (1) Humpty Dumpty... | |
 | England - 1890 - 932 pages
...or set right my version. The lines are as follows : ' Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty got a great fall, All the king's horses and all the king's men Could not set Humpty Dumpty up again.' My difficulty is this. The last line, as I have set it down, is defective in rhythm (the rhyme may... | |
 | Lewis Carroll - Adventure and adventurers - 1893 - 252 pages
...remark was evidently addressed to a tree — so she stood and softly repeated to herself : — " Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again." " That last line is much too long for the... | |
 | United States Fish Commission - Fish culture - 1894
...completed. The familiar nursery rhyme about the egg applies here with peculiar fitness: '• Humpty Duuipty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All...the king's horses and all the king's men Could not sot Humpty as before." That is the whole thing, so to speak, in an eggshell. After the salmon rivers... | |
 | United States Fish Commission - Fish culture - 1894 - 952 pages
...about the egg applies here with peculiar fitness : 1 Uumpty Dumpty gat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty bad a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men Could not set Huropty as before." That is the whole thing, so to speak, in an eggshell. After the salmon rivers are... | |
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again." "That last line is much too long for the poetry," she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty... 
