 | John Wilson - 1842 - 384 pages
...that we have him—and ask considerately, " what he means by winking?" And now we play around him, " Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play." He is brought down now to our own weight—then ten stone jimp—his eyes are momently getting more... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1843 - 372 pages
...Islington These gambols he did play, Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay ; And there he threw the wash about On both sides of the way, Just like...much To see how he did ride. Stop, stop, John Gilpin I — Here's the house, They all at once did cry ; The dinner waits, and we are tired : Said Gilpin... | |
 | Literature - 1922 - 986 pages
...of it, even up to the nineteenth century, in the mouths of the educated. 'Balcony' was once regular: 'At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wond 'ring much To see how he did ride. ' Swift once used ' balcony ' in verse, but this pronunciation... | |
 | Education - 1918 - 684 pages
...Bell," watching for John Gilpin. T. Read the stanza which tells of John's arrival at "The Bell." Ch "Stop, stop, John Gilpin! — Here's the house!" They...once did cry; The dinner waits, and we are tired;" Said. Gilpin — "So am I!" T. How did the horse go past " The Bell" ? (A child reads stanza 39 ) T.... | |
 | England - 1819 - 788 pages
...Islington, These gambols did he play, Until he came unto the wash Of Edmonton so gay. And there he threw the wash about On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play." These images are homely, but they are not, on that account, the less expressive. That of the " trundling... | |
 | Gordon Norton Ray - Art - 1991 - 390 pages
...inn at Edmonton where his family waits impatiently for the wedding anniversary celebration to begin: "Stop, stop, John Gilpin! — Here's the house!" They...once did cry; "The dinner waits, and we are tired;" Said Gilpin — "So am I!" 251 More "Graphic" Pictures by Randolph Caldecott. London, George Routledge... | |
 | William Cowper - Literary Collections - 2003 - 124 pages
...These gambols he did play, And till he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay. 136 And there he threw the wash about On both sides of the way, Just like...loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wond'ring much To see how he did ride. 144 Stop, stop, John Gilpin!— Here's the house— They all... | |
 | Judith Phillips Stanton - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 876 pages
...with him, and when he artives, exhausted from the wild ride, they all call out to him: Stop, stop Jobn Gilpin! — Here's the house — They all at once did cry, The dinner waits and we are tir'd, Said Gilpin — so am I. (ll. 145-48) But the horse takes off and tuns another ten miles back... | |
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Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay; And there he threw the Wash about On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much... 
