 | England - 1839 - 894 pages
...genins got by rote, was " Little Jack Horner," or that equally sublime conception of the poet, " Hi diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon." The interest that will attach to the records of my education, however, is not of this limited and individual... | |
 | Christianity - 1843 - 750 pages
...the regular hexameters and pentameters of the editor. " Hey diddle diddle! the cat and the Hddle! , The cow jumped over the moon : The little dog laughed to see such fine sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon." " Heididulum — atque iterum didulum ! Felisque... | |
 | English literature - 1915 - 632 pages
...And saw him seated on a heap of dead, Yelling the nursery -tune, Grimacing at the moon. . . . " And the cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed...such sport And the dish ran away with the spoon." And, as he stopt to snigger, I struggled to my knees and pulled the trigger.' Against this horror we... | |
 | 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, as is observed in the Antiquarian... | |
 | 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 ?... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 440 pages
...ditty of " Hey de diddle, The cat and the fiddle : The cow jump'd over the moon, The little dog laugh'd to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon." On the whole, however, with the exception of the above, and other INNOCENT odes of the same cast, we... | |
 | William Samuel Cardell - Adventure stories - 1834 - 252 pages
...beginning to end. 39. One piece in Ishmael's foolish book, wag, " High ding diddle '. The cat is in the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon ; The little dog laughed to see the sport, The dish hopped over the spoon." 40. « It is strange," said Mr. Halyard, "that a child... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 446 pages
...ditty of " Hey de diddle, The cat and the fiddle : The cow jump'd over the moon, The little dog laugh'd to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon." On the whole, however, with the exception of the above, and other INNOCENT odes of the same cast, we... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1840 - 492 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 she continued to sing (or squeal) until her wrath cooled down. The consequences of forming... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - English fiction - 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... | |
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Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon! 
