| James Grant - 1839 - 332 pàgines
...to call the attention of my readers : — "Jack and Gill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water ; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Gill came tumbling after !'' It will at once be perceived by the intelligent reader, that this poem has in it all the qualities... | |
| James Grant - 1839 - 332 pàgines
...to call the attention of my readers : — "Jack and Gill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water ; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Gill came tumbling after !" It will at once be perceived by the intelligent reader, that this poem has in it all the qualities... | |
| William Evans Burton - 1859 - 690 pàgines
...dispersed, with the blood which must have flowed from John's head, and we will witness a catastrophe highly shocking, and feel an irresistible impulse...the sense," Jack fell down And broke his crown, And GilI came tumbling after. The quick succession of movements is indicated by an equally rapid motion... | |
| Frederick Marryat - 1860 - 476 pàgines
...return ; for she commenced singing — " Jack and Gill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water ; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Gill came tumbling after." And then she broke out — " And whei« have you been, you goodfor-nothing boy, all this time ? putting... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 pàgines
...dispersed, with the blood which must have flowed from Johu's head, and we will witness a catastrophe highly shocking, and feel an irresistible impulse...echoes to the sense," — Jack fell down And broke his erown, And Gill came tumbling after. The quick succession of movements is indicated by an equally rapid... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 pàgines
...dispersed, with the blood which must have flowed from John's head, and we will witness a catastrophe highly shocking, and feel an irresistible impulse...of the short syllables; and in the last line Gill rolla with a greater sprightliness and vivacity than even the stone of Sisypjjjjs. Having expatiated... | |
| Gail Hamilton - 1865 - 352 pàgines
...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 sufficient excuse for all... | |
| Merry heart, Melville Gray - 1871 - 244 pàgines
...me With a gay gold ring. JACK AND GILL. JACK and Gill Went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water ; Jack fell down, And broke his crown, And Gill came tumbling after. BLOW THE FIRE, BLACKSMITH ! BLOW the fire, blacksmith ! The sparks begin to fly. Before I'd have an... | |
| A. Hoppe - 1871 - 504 pàgines
...f. Homer. — JACK and GILL. 9Uter SRcint: Jack and Gill went up a hill to fetch a pail of water ; Jack fell down and broke his crown, and Gill came tumbling after. — 2U3 Wcprafcntanten bcltcbiger ^erfoncnnamen, pie ,,£inj unb fiunj" bet un3. TDT I, p. 174: isn't... | |
| Samuel Langhorne Clemens - 1872 - 412 pàgines
...that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go." " 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." For simplicity, elegance of diction, and freedom from immoral tendencies, I regard those two poems... | |
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