| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...it."* Probably from the strange couplets on Signs came the popular verse sung to children : — Hei diddle diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle, The Cow jumped over the Moon; The little Dog laughed to see such a. sport, And the Dish fell a licking the Spoon. The three Blue Balls,... | |
| Richard Gooch - 1825 - 248 pages
...step, and a jump. 17. Scan the following lines, and then translate them into Latin hexameters : "High diddle diddle! The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon !" In what quarter was the moon when the cow jumped over her ? Was it an Alderney or a Welsh cow ?... | |
| 1839 - 894 pages
...disquisition among contemporary editors and biographers whether the earliest production the embryo genius got by rote, was " Little Jack Horner," or that equally...country, such as it is; and such as it is, such am I. It is to the elevating and moralizing tendency of the systems of education which have successively... | |
| 1839 - 876 pages
...biographers whether the earliest production the embryo genius got by rote, was " Little Jack Homer," or that equally sublime conception of the poet, "...country, such as it is ; and such as it is, such am I. It is to the elevating and moralizing tendency of the systems of education which have successively... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 492 pages
...till she, in her turn, lost her temper, and then out she would sing, in a sort of scream — " Hey diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle. The cow jumped over the moon," &c. And thus she continued to sing (or squeal) until her wrath cooled down. The consequences of forming... | |
| Frederick Marryat - 1840 - 222 pages
...language, till she, in her turn lost her temper, and then out she would sing, in a sort of scream — ' Hey diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle, . The cow jumped over the moon,' &c. And thus sho continued to sing (or squeal) until her wrath cooled down. The consequences of forming... | |
| 1840 - 818 pages
...till she, in her turn lust her temper, and then out she would sing, in & sort •• scream — ' Hey diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon,' &c. And thus she continued to sing (or squeel) until her wrath cooled down. 170 was up, in great wrath,... | |
| Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...placida in spirabant undique pacem ; Hsec tibi — sed notos deseruere locos ! L. HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE. HEY diddle diddle ! the cat and the fiddle ! — The cow jumped over the moon ; The little dog laught to see such fine sport; And the dish ran away with the spoon. GAMMER GURTON. WOE'S... | |
| Percy Society - 1841 - 468 pages
...thing, give a thing, The old man's gold ring ; Lie butt, lie ben, Lie among the dead men. CXVII. HIE ! diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon, The little dog laughed to see such sport, While the dish ran after the spoon. CXVIII. CRIPPLE Dick upon... | |
| James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 434 pages
...thing, give a thing, The old man's gold ring ; Lie butt, lie ben, Lie among the dead men. CXVII. HIE ! diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon, The little dog laughed to see such sport, While the dish ran after the spoon. CXVIII. CRIPPLE Dick upon... | |
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