 | William Hone - 1832 - Страниц: 874
...in the little narrative of Jink I hi in r. Little Jack Homer Sat in a comer Eating a Christmas pie« form'd !' From this history it will he at once evident that the complacency of Little Jack arises, not from... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1835 - Страниц: 800
...September, 1831 :— The great Capt. Ross, Both haughty and cross, Was eating his pudding and pie,He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said what a great fool am I. We may perhaps have given to this anecdote a higher degree of embellishment than its... | |
 | 1836 - Страниц: 388
...historian, " little Jack Horner," the wise child, who — " Sat in a corner, Eating a Christmns pic ; He put in his thumb. And pulled out a plum. And said—' what a brave boy am I !' " Touched by the intelligence and amir able self-glorification eternized in this... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1836 - Страниц: 844
...September, 831 :— The great Capt. Ross, Both haughty and cross, Was eating his pudding and pie, He pat in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said what a great fool am I. We may perhaps have given to this anecdote a higher de " embellishment than its merits... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1837 - Страниц: 398
...historian, " little Jack Horner," the wise child, who— " Sat in a corner, Eating a Christmas pie ; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said — ' what a brave boy am I !'" Touched by the intelligence and amiable self-glorification eternized in this simple... | |
 | 1843 - Страниц: 744
...a namesake of the hero, who found life, as it were, a Christmas pie. " He put in his thumb, And he pulled out a plum, And said, What a good boy am I ?" Our opinion of the greater fitness of Greek to give the true spirit of nursery rhymes, is borne... | |
 | George Payne R. James - 1846 - Страниц: 1166
...your proceedings," rejoined the solicitor, "and put me greatly in mind of a certain Jack Homer who ' Put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said ' What a good boy am I.' ' We don't do these things in London, Master Constable." " That fs a pity, sir," said Mr. Higginthorp... | |
 | George Payne Rainsford James - 1845 - Страниц: 426
...rejoined the solicitor, "and put me greatly in mind of a certain Jack Horner, who 'Put in his tbumb, And pulled out a plum, And said what a good boy am I. ' We don 't do these things in London , Master Constable." "That 'sa pity, Sir," said Mr. Higginthorp,... | |
 | 1849 - Страниц: 644
...a young cook playfully pokes her finger through the dough she is kneading, or as the child Hornet' perforated the crust of his Christmas pie, when '...plum, And said— What a good boy am I ! ' Some of the steam arms or levers just described are gifted wilh what may be termed ' double-thumbs,' and accordingly... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - 1849 - Страниц: 660
...dough she is kneading, or as the child I Joriier perforated the crust of his Christmas pie, when < He ' 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,' and accordingly... | |
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Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Eating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I! 
