 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 ?... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1840 - 818 pages
...language, till she, in her turn lust her temper, and then out she would sing, in & sort •• scream — ' Hey diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon,' &c. And thus she continued to sing (or squeel) until her wrath cooled down. 170 was up, in great wrath,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...placida in spirabant undique pacem ; Hsec tibi — sed notos deseruere locos ! L. HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE. HEY diddle diddle ! the cat and the fiddle ! — The cow jumped over the moon ; The little dog laught to see such fine sport; And the dish ran away with the spoon. GAMMER GURTON. WOE'S ME! 0н !... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1841 - 468 pages
...thing, give a thing, The old man's gold ring ; Lie butt, lie ben, Lie among the dead men. CXVII. HIE ! diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon, The little dog laughed to see such sport, While the dish ran after the spoon. CXVIII. CRIPPLE Dick upon a stick, And... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Ballads, English - 1841 - 434 pages
...thing, give a thing, The old man's gold ring ; Lie butt, lie ben, Lie among the dead men. CXVII. HIE ! diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon, The little dog laughed to see such sport, While the dish ran after the spoon. CXVIII. CRIPPLE Dick upon a stick, And... | |
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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! 
