| American poetry - 1920 - 996 pages
...the once convivial door; And from that hour those Bachelors were never heard of more. Edward Lear. 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 catch ! Beware the Jubjub bird,... | |
| American poetry - 1920 - 1016 pages
...Oh, frabjous day! Callooh! callay!" He chortlqd 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. Lewis Carroll. WAYS AND MEANS I'LL tell thee everything I can; There's little to relate. I saw an aged aged man, A-sitting... | |
| Bliss Perry - Poetry - 1920 - 416 pages
...whittling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! " 'T was brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe." "It seems rather pretty," commented the wise Alice, "but it's rather hard to understand! Somehow it... | |
| Montrose Jonas Moses - Children's plays - 1921 - 594 pages
...looking-glass 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... | |
| KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...be the most profound. BUTLER — Pindaric Ode. IV. L. 82. 13 T was brillig, and the slithy toves Did e — Through the Looking-glass. Ch. I. 14 To varnish nonsense with the charms of sound. CHURCHILL —... | |
| Basil Anderton - Books - 1922 - 208 pages
...(from Alice Through the Looking Glass) into Latin elegiacs19: 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and... | |
| Carolyn Wells - Wit and humor - 1923 - 804 pages
...boy! O 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. WAYS AND MEANS I'll tell thee everything I can; There's little to relate. I saw an aged aged man, A-sitting... | |
| Herbert Quick - Authors - 1923 - 520 pages
...fairy-story to me, and just as delightful. It might run off into " 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe ; All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome rathes outgrabe !" "Why, what's that you were saying?" asked Fremont in astonishment. "Don't you know... | |
| Clarence Edward Andrews, Milton Oswin Percival - English poetry - 1924 - 624 pages
...LEWIS CARROLL. JABBERWOCKY [From Through the Looking Glass.] TWAS brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe : All mimsy were the borogoves. And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son I The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird,... | |
| Samuel Chester Parker, Alice Temple - Education - 1925 - 626 pages
...difficulty in pronouncing such unfamiliar words as are found in the following from Lewis Carroll : JABBERWOCKY 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did...mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. How to organize the preliminary steps toward the matured skill. — With this goal in mind, — namely,... | |
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