 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 710 páginas
...ORIGINAL, MAGI GOTAMENSES. Gormen her claim variorum annotatlonibtu iüuslraíum. • f -Three wise of Gotham " Went to sea in a bowL " If the bowl had been stronger, " My song had been longer." BELLA, magosquc cano, et sœvis nietuenda periclis ..•Equora, tunique hyemem, paterisque invisa rotundis... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 páginas
...The Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham. Edited by the Author of ' John Bull in America.' ' Three Wise Men of Gotham Went to Sea in a Bowl. If the Bowl had been stronger, . My Tales had been longer.' New York. 1826. G. & C. Carvffl. 12mo. pp. 324. OF all the sages of antiquity,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 páginas
...The Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham. Edited by the Author of ' John Bull in America.' ' Three Wise Men of Gotham Went to Sea in a Bowl. If the Bowl had been stronger. My Tales had been longer.' New York. 1826. G. & C. Carvill. 12mo. pp. 324. OF all the sages of antiquity,... | |
 | Popular tales - 1843 - 268 páginas
...wise tricks imputed to the far-famed men of Gotham. The common nursery rhyme runs thus : — " Three men of Gotham went to sea in a bowl, If the bowl had been stronger, my song had been longer." On one occasion, a villager happening to be abroad at a late hour on a moon-shiny night, saw the reflection... | |
 | Lawrence Lovechild - 1847 - 118 páginas
...come down, Or I 'll crack your crown, And toss you into the sea. 126. rPHREE wise men of Gotham -L Went to sea in a bowl : If the bowl had been stronger, My song had been longer. I 127. T) AT, bat, -*-' Come under my hat, And 1 'll give you a slice of bacon ; And when I bake, I... | |
 | 1900 - 614 páginas
...1749." What is the meaning of the two mariiinal inscriptions ? FER 'THE THREE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM.'— Three Wise Men of Gotham Went to sea in a bowl ; If the bowl had been stronger My tale had been longer. By the aid of works in the Nottingham [Public Reference Library, I have been... | |
 | 1900 - 676 páginas
...1749." What is the meaning of the two marginal inscriptions ? YEK 'THE THREE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM.'— Three Wise Men of Gotham Went to sea in a bowl ; If the bowl had been stronger My tale had been longer. By the aid of works in the Nottingham Public .Reference Library, I have been... | |
 | 1851 - 554 páginas
...Gotham been long famous for their extreme folly ? My authorities are, — 1. The Nursery Rhyme, — " Three wise men of Gotham Went to sea in a bowl ; If the bowl had been stronger, My story would have been longer." 2. Drunken Barnaby's Jouriuil (edit. L.ondon, 1822, p. 25.), originally... | |
 | 1864 - 764 páginas
...England still dearer, To which I wonld hope all this journeying tends. TFDC 146 "THE MEN OF GOTHAM." " Three wise men of Gotham Went to sea in a bowl: If...the bowl had been stronger My song had been longer." These nursery-rhymes, which jingle so pleasantly in our memory all life long, have many of them a good... | |
 | Fanny Fern - 1857 - 314 páginas
...Yes ; do you know any ? I know some.' " Then the minister asked me what I knew. "Then I said, "'Two wise men of Gotham went to sea in a bowl; if the bowl had been stronger, my tale would have been longer.' Then the minister laughed and asked me if I believed that ; then I said... | |
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THREE wise men of Gotham Went to sea in a bowl; If the bowl had been stronger, My song had been longer. 
