 | Dame Goslin (pseud.) - 1851 - 110 páginas
...Gotham Went to sea in a bowl : And if the bowl had been stronger, My song would have been longer. THE lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ;...beat the unicorn All round about the town. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown ; Some gave them plum-cake, 'TWAS the twenty-ninth of May,... | |
 | George Seton - 1863 - 648 páginas
...to England,2 in accordance with the sentiment of certain well-known classical lines :— " The Liou and the Unicorn Were fighting for the crown ; The Lion beat the Unicorn All round the town ! " 1 See a curious dialogue between Kingdom by the word England, Lord Redesdale and Mr. (afterwards... | |
 | 1856 - 502 páginas
...diurnal revolution of the terrestrial * " Of as little use as two tails to a cat." — Yankecism. t " The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ; The lion beat the nnicorn AH ahont the town." sphere, your trifling hydra, so readily despatched with a hot poker, when... | |
 | 1865 - 228 páginas
...ROMER, HILES, COTTRELL, BUBBINGTON, LOUISA PYNE. CONDUCTOR— Signer ARDITI. To be followed by THE LION AND THE UNICORN WERE FIGHTING FOR THE CROwN. The Lion beat the Unicorn all around the town, Some gave them white bread and some gave them brown. The Novel and Magnificent Scenery... | |
 | Severn river - 1867 - 458 páginas
...they bear, and the tales which they tell. BTBON. The Lion and the Unicorn. HE lion and the unicorn i Were fighting for the crown ; The lion beat the unicorn All round the town. Some gave him white bread ; Some gave him brown ; Some gave him plum-cake, And sent him out... | |
 | Old nursery songs - 1869 - 348 páginas
...gobble, gobble, gobble: The man on the hill, that couldn't stand still, Went hobble, hobble, hobble. HE lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ;...beat the unicorn All round about the town. Some gave them white bread, Some gave them brown, Some gave them plumcake, And sent them out of town. Jane comes... | |
 | 1869 - 254 páginas
...little birds' eggs, To make his voice clear ; And when he sings " cuckoo ! " The summer is near. The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ;...beat the unicorn All round about the town. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown ; Some gave them plum-cake, And sent them out of town. The... | |
 | John Timbs - 1869 - 374 páginas
...of heraldic decoration) to a nursery rhyme which most of us remember : — " The Lion and the Unicom Were fighting for the crown ; The Lion beat the Unicorn All round the town," &c. unless it alludes to a contest for dominion over the brute creation, which the " rebellious... | |
 | William Hewson - 1870 - 798 páginas
...you can't read all, So pray, Miss or Master, Throw up the ball. XII. THE LION AND THE UNICORN. THE Lion and the Unicorn Were fighting for the crown ;...beat the Unicorn All round about the town. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown ; Some gave them plum-cake, And sent them oat of town. X11I.... | |
 | Merry heart, Melville Gray - 1871 - 244 páginas
...never did him any harm, And killed the mice in his father's barn. « Next THE LION AND THE UNICORN. THE lion and the unicorn were fighting for the crown,...beat the unicorn all round about the town ; Some gave them white bread, and some gave them brown, Some gave them plum cake, and sent them out of town. THE... | |
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The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown: The Lion beat the Unicorn all round the town. Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown: Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town. 
