 | Joseph Berg Esenwein, Mary Eleanor Roberts - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 336 pages
...good verse as well as judges it; and several other scarcely less ingenious and graceful rhymesters. JABBERWOCKY 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did...mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that scratch! Beware the Jubjub bird,... | |
 | Honoré Morrow - Indians of North America - 1913 - 330 pages
...her fancy said they traveled. Suddenly she laughed crazily: " 'Twas brillig, and the slythy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe!" DeWitt laughed hoarsely. "That's just the way it looks to me, Rhoda. But you're just as crazy as I... | |
 | Boris Sidis - Laughter - 1913 - 320 pages
..."Alice Through the Looking Glass" is specially instructive: 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. • ••••..••••..••• "When you say 'hill/ " the Queen interrupted, "I could show... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - Quotations - 1914 - 1514 pages
...Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision." Chap. x. 'T was brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Through the Looking-glast . Chap. i. He chortled in his joy. • ibid. "The time has come," the Walrus... | |
 | Alice Gerstenberg - Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll) - 1915 - 170 pages
...lookingglass book, of course! And if I hold it up to a glass, the words will all go the right way again. JABBERWOCKY 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did...mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. It seems very pretty, but it's rather hard to understand; somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein - American periodicals - 1916 - 288 pages
...Oh, frabjous day! Callooh! callay!" He chortled in his joy. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome raths outgrabe. There are no invented words in the following anonymous stanzas from Punch, but only impossible concepts:... | |
 | Authur Huntington Nason - English language - 1917 - 552 pages
...that delightful professor of mathematics, "Lewis Carroll": 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. On the other hand, the appeal of Pope's Essay on Criticism is primarily intellectual: In words, as... | |
 | Anna May Irwin Lütkenhaus, Margaret Knox - Readers - 1917 - 208 pages
...will all go the right way again. [Recites poem.] JABBERWOCKY 'T was brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...very wzoci-turtle! .James Thomas Fields [1816-1881] JABBERWOCKY TWAS brillig, and the slilhy toves Did l that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye, and ear, — bo "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch.! Beware the Jubjub bird,... | |
 | Douglas Gordon Crawford - English language - 1919 - 398 pages
...Coining words. Making new words, or using words in a new sense. " 'Twas brillig and the slithy tones Did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe." " I shall execute my poor mustachio." Collective noun. (See Concrete noun.) Comma blunder. Separating... | |
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Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgra.be. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird and shun The frumious Bandersnatch! 
