There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise, He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes. And when he saw his eyes were out, With all his might and main He jumped into another bush And scratched them in again. The American Monthly Magazine - Página 61837Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1884 - 518 páginas
...students in Siam are allowed two wives ; the Siamese way of hazing, no doubt. — De Pauw Monthly. There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise , He wrote a crib upon his cuff, Of much diminished size. But when he felt a little bored, And yawned with... | |
| 1885 - 528 páginas
...have, in this world, but give us only the " precious nonsense." Think of this : There was a man of our town, And he was wondrous wise. He jumped into...bramble-bush And scratched out both his eyes : And when he found his eyes were out, With all his might and main, He jumped into л bramble-bush And scratched... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - 1885 - 506 páginas
...to be blind, rushing into other thorns he got his eyes. A free translation is the nursery rhyme : ' There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise," etc. Yours truly, GEO. HS CHKNANGO FORKS, NY DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I wrote these verses when I was nine... | |
| James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1886 - 360 páginas
...Newington, And he was wond'rous wise, He jump'd into a quickset hedge, And scratch'd out both his eyes : But when he saw his eyes were out, With all his might and main lie jump'd into another hedge, CCCI.XV. Up stairs, down stairs, upon my lady's window, There I saw... | |
| 1882 - 688 páginas
...day. How much better for us all, if we could be like the man in the bramble bush, who " when he found his eyes were out, with all his might and main, he jumped into another bush and scratched them in again." So can we make the moment of our greatest failure, the beginning... | |
| Eben Harlow Davis - 1889 - 166 páginas
...be drowned, for there is no water. I wish papa was here to give us a real boat-ride. LESSON XCVIII. There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise;...were out, With all his might and main, He jumped into another bush, And scratched them in again. o See that poor old man ! How white his hair is, and how... | |
| Daniel Webster Cathell - 1889 - 374 páginas
...cantharides for burns, and an immense farrago of other similar nonsense, that rivals Mother Goose's : — "There was a man in our town, and he was wondrous wise, He jumped into a bramble hush and scratched out both his eyes. And when he saw his eyes were out, with all his niiirht... | |
| Daniel Webster Cathell - 1890 - 344 páginas
...Goose's : — "There was a man in our town, and he was wondrous wise, He jumped into a bramhle bush and scratched out both his eyes. And when he saw his...were out, with all his might and main, He jumped into another bush and scratched them in again." Study the " Organon of Medicine" and "The Lesser Writings,"... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1890 - 820 páginas
...town, And he was wondrous wise ; He jumped into a bramble-bush, And scratched out both his eyes. But when he saw his eyes were out, With all his might and main, He jumped into another bush, And scratched them in again." " Uncle Billy, what are you laughing at ? " asked the child.... | |
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