 Lamb got up, and taking a candle, said, 'Sir, will you allow me to look at your phrenological development?' He then turned his back on the poor man, and at every question of the comptroller he chaunted: 'Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John Went to bed...  Blow the Candle Out (c) - Page 622Limited preview - About this book
 | Nursery rhymes - 1833 - 154 pages
...do bark, The beggars have come to town ; Some in rags, and some in tags, And some in velvet gowns. Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John Went to bed with his breeches on, One stocking off, and one stocking on, Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John. ASI was going to Derby upon... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Counting-out rhymes - 1843 - 332 pages
...Four and twenty, — my stomach is empty ; Pray, mamma, give me some dinner. CXXXVII. DEEDLE, deedle, dumpling, my son John Went to bed with his breeches on ; One shoe off, the other shoe on, Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John. CXXXVIII. FEEDUM, flddledum fee, The cat's... | |
 | Literature - 1895 - 862 pages
...stranger was a comptroller of stamps — and at every question of the comptroller ho chanted : — Diddle, diddle dumpling, my son John Went to bed with his breeches on. Lamb continued to give obbligato encores of this doggrel rhyme, and then rising, exclaimed, " Do let... | |
 | American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...your phren- j ological development?" Then, at every remark of the poor comptroller, chaunted — " Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John Went to bed with his breeches on." Quite in the same way is his humorous treatment of the poet whose friend had submitted some newly-published... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1846 - 266 pages
...I'll go. Dibbity, dibbity, dibbity, ditter, Please to give me A bit of a fritter. 289. DEEDLE, deedle, dumpling, my son John Went to bed with his breeches on ; One shoe off, the other shoe on, Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John. 290. FEEDUM, fiddledum fee, The cat 's got... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1846 - 300 pages
...go. Dibbity, dibbity, dibbity, ditter, Please to give me A bit of a fritter. ccxcii. DEEDLE, deedle, dumpling, my son John Went to bed with his breeches on; One shoe off, the other shoe on, Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John. ccxcui. FEEDUM, fiddledum fee, The cat's... | |
 | Dame Goslin (pseud.) - Children's rhymes - 1851 - 110 pages
...chanced to come that way, Wisky, wasky, weedle ; Says he, " I'll shoot you, silly bird," DEEDLE, deedle, dumpling, my son John Went to bed with his breeches on ; One shoe off, the other shoe on, Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John. A cow and a calf, An ox and a half, Forty... | |
 | Benjamin Robert Haydon - Painters - 1853 - 568 pages
...?" He then turned his back on the poor man, and at every question of the comptroller he chaunted " Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John Went to bed with his breeches on." The man in office, finding Wordsworth did not know who he was, said, in a spasmodic and hulf-chuckling... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...development?' He then turned his back on the poor man ; and at every question of the comptroller he chaunted " Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John Went to bed with his breeches on." The man in office, finding Wordsworth did not know who he was, said in a spasmodic and half-chuckling... | |
 | Benjamin Robert Haydon - Artists - 1853 - 408 pages
...development?" He then turned his back on the poor man, and at every question of the comptroller he chaunted " Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John Went to bed with his breeches on." The man in office, finding Wordsworth did not know who he was, said in a spasmodic and half-chuckling... | |
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