 | George Dyer - 1824 - 702 strani
...friend, and gave his opinion as follows, in allusion to the Poet- Lau real's name : And when the Pye was opened, The Birds began to sing : And was not this a dainty disb, To set before the King ? BENE'T COLLEGE. Bene't College seems to have produced a greater number... | |
 | David Irving - 1839 - 400 strani
...accurate expendi." (Tom. ii. p. 261.) vation of a soul, no, not for the redemption of the whole world."1 Was not this a dainty dish to set before a king ? The superstitious and extravagant veneration which the clergy and laity of this party professed to feel... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1845 - 484 strani
...Sing a song of sixpence A bag full of rye, Four-and-twenty blackbirds Baked in a pye. When the pye was opened The birds began to sing And was not this a dainty dish To set before a king — But if we think this strange, what shall we say to baking, or at least enclosing a dwarf in a pye... | |
 | Richard Lane Freer - 1866 - 316 strani
...absurd — "Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened The birds began to sing, And was not this a dainty dish To set before a King ? " But if we think this strange, what shall we say to baking, or at least enclosing, a dwarf in a... | |
 | Richard Lane Freer - 1866 - 316 strani
...absurd — "Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds liaked in a pie. When the pie was opened The birds began to sing, And...was not this a dainty dish To set before a King?" But if we think this strange, what shall we say to baking, or at least enclosing, a dwarf in a pie... | |
 | John Hollingshead - 1895 - 326 strani
...Ode came out, which was very poor, somebody, being asked his opinion of it, said — And when the Pye was opened, The birds began to sing, And was not this a dainty dish . To set before the king ? Fye was a brother to Old Major Pye, and father to Mrs. Arnold, and uncle to a General Pye,... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1897 - 280 strani
...out, which was very poor, somebody being ask'd his opinion of it said — And when the Pye was open'd, The birds began to sing, And was not this a dainty dish To set before the King ? " Pye was brother to old Major Pye, and father to Mrs. Arnold, and uncle to a General Pye,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 486 strani
...out, which was very poor, somebody being ask'd his opinion of it said — And when the Pye was open'd, The birds began to sing,. And was not this a dainty dish, To set before the King ? Pye was brother to old Major Pye, and father to Mrs Arnold, and uncle to a General Pye,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - 488 strani
...which was very poor, somebody being ask'd his opinion of it said — And when the Pye wa« open'd, The birds began to sing, And was not this a dainty dish, To set before the King ? Pye was brother to old Major Pye, and father to Mrs Arnold, and uncle to a General Pye,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1905 - 536 strani
...which was very poor, somebody being asked his opinion of it, said : — And when the Pye was open'd The birds began to sing. And was not this a dainty dish To set before the King ! Pye was brother to old Major Pye, and father to Mrs. Arnold, and uncle to a General Pye,... | |
| |
Ode came out, which was very poor, somebody being asked his opinion of it, said : — And when the Pye was open'd The birds began to sing. And was not this a dainty dish To set before the King ! Pye was brother to old Major Pye, and father to Mrs. Arnold,... 
