 | 1835 - 1022 páginas
...minuteness of Denner. For who can doubt the identity of the " grumbling old woman ? " " There lived an old woman, and what do you think, She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink. And though victuals and drink were the chief of her diet, Yet the grumbling old woman would never be... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 páginas
...counted them at break of day — And when the sun set — where were they? BYEON. THE RESTLESS OLD LADY. THERE was an old woman, and what do you think? She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink; And though victuals and drink were the chief of her diet, Yet this restless old lady could never keep... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1843 - 332 páginas
...CCLXXVII. [The conclusion of the following resembles a verse in the nursery history of Mother Hnbbard.] THERE was an old woman, and what do you think? She...drink. Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet, This plaguy old woman could never be quiet. She went to the baker, to buy her some bread, And when... | |
 | 1844 - 764 páginas
...mansion, «iih u lull resolution ot couiiuunicaliug the whole uiluir to the Chancellor CHAPTER III. There was an old woman, and what do you think? She...victuals and drink : Victuals and drink were the chief ot her diet, And yet this old lady could never be quiet. Now the long shadows of the trees thntstretched... | |
 | 1846 - 300 páginas
...CCLX. [The conclusion of the following resembles a verse in the nursery history of Mother Hubbard.] THERE was an old woman, and what do you think? She...drink : Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet; This plaguy old woman could never be quiet. She went to the baker, to buy her some bread, And when... | |
 | 1846 - 266 páginas
...[The conclusion of the following resembles a verse in the nursery history of Mother Hubbard.] THEHE was an old woman, and what do you think ? She lived...drink : Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet ; This plaguy old woman could never be quiet. She went to the baker, to buy her some bread, And when... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1849 - 326 páginas
...never again be reduced to your THE LONG LADDER. There was a young pickle, and what do you think ! He lived upon nothing but victuals and drink ; Victuals and drink were the chief of his diet, And yet this young pickle could never be quiet. ONE fine sultry day in the month of August,... | |
 | 1854 - 634 páginas
...were eternally dissatisfied and unmanageable. In short it was the moral of the old nursery fable : There was an old woman, and what do you think ? She...but victuals and drink ; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, And yct this old womtu would NETEB be quiet. Is it possible, I wonder, that there... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1854 - 302 páginas
...In short it was the moral of the old nursery fable : There was an old woman, and what do you think T She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink ; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, And yet this old woman would NEVER be quiet. Is it possible, I wonder, that there... | |
 | 1856 - 612 páginas
...legs; but, like a second Whittington, citchiug prophetic inspiration from the nursery jingle — " There was an old woman, and what do you think ? She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink," it was, in spite of bad nursing, roused into being, and the " bairn" lives, but haa sadly out-grown... | |
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There was an old woman, and what do you think? She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, And yet this old woman would never be quiet. 
