 | Richard Coe - 1852 - Страниц: 178
...day would be in the dark as to the important 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1853 - Страниц: 504
...selfishness, or greediness ? or, at best, it causes those vices to be regarded with leniency and levity : " Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Eating a Christmas pie ! He put in his thumb, And he pull'd out a plum, And cried, ' What a good boy am I !' " , It may be said that the view he takes... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - 1857 - Страниц: 412
...dough she is kneading, or as the child John Horner perforated the crust of his Christmas pie, when " He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, What a good boy am I ! " * When this article was written Lord John Russell was Prime Minister. Some of the steam arms or... | |
 | 1859 - Страниц: 316
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 | Adeline Dutton Train Whitney - 1860 - Страниц: 140
...holding in view, The old lady's discourse will undoubtedly "dew"! JACK HORNEE. " Little Jack Homer Sat in a corner Eating a Christmas Pie : He put in...his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, ' What a great boy am I ! '" AH, the world hath many a Homer, Who, seated in his corner, Finds a Christmas Pie... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1860 - Страниц: 300
...On this theft was founded the Somersetshire rhyme, — Little Jack Homer sat in a corner, Eyeing his Christmas pie, He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum, Saying, " What a brave boy am I !" This building is, in the interior, square with four fire-places... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - 1861 - Страниц: 274
...the dough she is kneading, or as the child Horner perforated the crust of his Christmas pie, when ' He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said — What a good boy am I ! ' Some of the steam-arms or levers just described are gifted with what may be termed ' double-thumbs,'... | |
 | Edward Vansittart Neale - 1863 - Страниц: 280
...such an operation as Jack Horner, of nursery celebrity, performed on his Christmas pie, when — " He put in his thumb And pulled out a plum, And said, What a good boy am I." We may copy his example. "We may "abstract" the petals from a rose, for instance, and shall have the... | |
 | 1865 - Страниц: 562
...beneath the broad sea, Whose blue depths intervene, May the finishing string Lie unbroken between ! JACK. HORNER. " Little JACK HORNER Sat in a corner,...his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, ' What a great boy am I !' " \ H, the world hath many a HORNER, Who, seated in his corner, Finds a Christmas... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1865 - Страниц: 462
...the nursery lines, — ' Little Jack Homer Sat ¡nn corner [namely, that of the wagon]. Eyeing his Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum [the deed of the manor of Wclla], And said, " What a brave boy am II"'" Another correspondent of the... | |
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