| Claud Lovat Fraser - 1922 - 72 páginas
...lashed him, She rode him through the mire ; I'll never lend my nag again For any lady's hire. 46 XLI Hark! Hark! the dogs do bark! The beggars are coming...Town : Some in rags, and some in jags, And some in a velvet gown. 47 BABY, BABY BUNTING, Thy father's gone a-hunting — He's gone to fetch a rabbit skin,... | |
| John Joseph Clarke - 1922 - 396 páginas
...he was one of five that usually met at St. Andrew's.' " All are familiar with the nursery rhyme—- Hark ! hark ! the dogs do bark, The beggars are coming to town, Some in rags, and some in tags, And some in velvet gowns. These velvet gownsmen were no doubt the same type as those referred... | |
| C. E. Tyndale-Biscoe - 1922 - 374 páginas
...beggars ; some actually ride on horseback, which reminds me of the old English song : Hark ! hark ! how the dogs do bark, The beggars are coming to town, Some in rags and some on nags And some in velvet gown. They exist in their scores, because the people will give to them,... | |
| Nathaniel Wright Stephenson - 1922 - 512 páginas
...pretext could make a showing of party service rendered, poured into Washington. It was a motley horde : "Hark, hark, the dogs do bark, The beggars are coming to town." They converted the White House into a leaguer. They swarmed into the corridors and even the private... | |
| Compton Mackenzie - 1923 - 346 páginas
...brick-kiln had involved him. The incursion was like the arrival of the beggars in the old nursery rhyme : Hark, hark, the dogs do bark, The beggars are coming...Some in rags and some in jags, And some in velvet gowns. They came by special trains. They travelled along the road in caravans. They walked from London,... | |
| Charles Greeley Abbot - 1923 - 246 páginas
...specifically in it. What are brains and knowledge for but to apply ? CHAPTER XII RAGS AND VELVET GOWNS Hark! hark! the dogs do bark, The beggars are coming to town, Some in rags, and some in tags, And some in velvet gowns. How many strands are there in a silk thread? Count them. Take the thread... | |
| Charles Greeley Abbot - 1923 - 246 páginas
...it. What are brains and knowledge for but to apply? CHAPTER XII RAGS AND VELVET GOWNS Hark I hark I the dogs do bark, The beggars are coming to town, Some in rags, and some in tags, And some in velvet gowns. How many strands are there in a silk thread? Count them. Take the thread... | |
| Vivian Trow Thayer - 1924 - 728 páginas
...opening "Hark ! Hark ! the dogs bark" runs thus in Miss Greenaway's version : Hark! Hark I the dogs bark, The beggars are coming to town; Some in rags and some in tags, And some in a silken gown. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown, And some gave... | |
| Walter French - 1925 - 98 páginas
...Leipzig 1902. Monographien zur deutschen Kulturgeschichte. X, p 66. 39 Of the old English nursery rhyme, ,,Hark! Hark! the dogs do bark, The beggars are coming to town." 40 Hampe, p 67 ff. 41 Hampe, p 83. mode of living and the regard with which he is held, is the gypsy... | |
| Walter French - 1918 - 54 páginas
...Leipzig 1902. Monographien zur deutschen Kulturgeschichte. X, p 66. 39 Cf the old English nursery rhyme, ,,Hark! Hark! the dogs do bark, The beggars are coming to town." 40 Hampe, p 67 ff. 41 Hampe, p 83. mode of living and the regard with which he is held, is the gypsy... | |
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