| 1843 - 590 páginas
...it may, we will recall the verses to memory, for the sake of a comment ; and thus it is they run : Little Jack Homer Sat in a corner, Eating his Christmas pie, He put in his thumb And pulled out a plum, Saying, what a good boy am I. In these verses many things may be remarked ; but... | |
| 1825 - 204 páginas
...colons, but the worst is, they put no periods to their works. Little Jack Homer. Little Jack Horner, sat in a corner, Eating his Christmas pie, He put in his thumb, and pull'd out a plum, "Arjd said what a good boy am I. When the venal and base, to eke out job or place, . ; The national... | |
| 1835 - 1022 páginas
...questioning seems to imply that he would be a mouthpiece. He is, beyond dispute, " The Little Jack Homer That sat in a corner Eating his Christmas pie, He put in his Thumb, And he pull'd out a plum. And said what a good boy am I." This is certainly Lord John Russell; be is clearly... | |
| Frederick Marryat - 1840 - 484 páginas
...worse than that beastly water-spaniel of Sir Hercules', who used to shake himself over my best cambrick muslin. Well, we'll see. He'll be wanting his dinner;...and pull'd out a plum, And cried, what a good boy am 1 J " 'Good boy am II' good-for-nothing brat, just like his father. 0 dear ! — if I could but get... | |
| Lawrence Lovechild - 1847 - 118 páginas
...Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet, And yet this old woman could never be quiet. 49. T ITTLE Jack Homer sat in a corner, ^-* Eating his Christmas...; He put in his thumb, and pull'd out a plum, And said, What a good boy am I ! *§5» 50. ALD King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was... | |
| Richard Coe - 1852 - 178 páginas
...fact of "Who killed cock-robin?" r ''. CONTENTMENT. " Little Jack Horner, Sat in a corner, Eating a Christmas pie ; He put in his thumb, And pull'd out a plum, . And said, ' What a good boy am I !' " No one, we presume, will attempt to deny that the ancient far exceed... | |
| Lawrence Lovechild - 1858 - 128 páginas
...drink were the chief of her diet, And yet this old woman could never be quiet. 49. T ITTLE Jack Horner sat in a corner, •*-* Eating his Christmas pie ; He put in his thumb, and pull'd out a plum, And said, What a good boy am I ! 41 sr-Ji I ALD King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was... | |
| Charles Henry Bennett - 1858 - 82 páginas
...spider, And sat down beside her, And frighten'd poor Mary away. Jack Homer sat in the corner, Eating a Christmas pie ; He put in his thumb, and pull'd out a plum, And said, " What a good boy am I.!" J^ADY-BIRD, Lady-Bird, Fly away home, Your house is on fire, Your children... | |
| Frederick Marryat - 1860 - 484 páginas
...water-spaniel of Sir Hercules', who used to shake himself over my best cambrick muslin. Well, we'll see. Ho 'II be wanting his dinner; I only wish he may get it....and pull'd out a plum, And cried, what a good boy am 1 !" 'Good boy am I!' good-for-nothing brat, just like his father. 0 dear ! — if I could but get... | |
| James Kirke Paulding - 1867 - 394 páginas
...morsels, and his implied superiority), of the verse of Mother Goose : — " Little Jack Horner, he sat in a corner, ' Eating his Christmas pie ; He put in his thumb, and he pulled out a plum — 0, what a smart boy am I ! " Tremendous epithets and nouns substantive, —... | |
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