 | 1853 - 460 σελίδες
...extempore for any length of time, and instantly beginning— " As with my hat upon my head, I walked along the Strand, I there did meet another man, With his hat in his hand :" and so on. No doubt it is just as easy to travestie the old ballad as one of the worthy Doctor's... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 σελίδες
...in which he mimicked the style of the early ballads : — As with my hat upon my head I walked along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand. Now the rhyme is there good enough, but no one will say that there is any poetry in it. And as you... | |
 | 1857 - 402 σελίδες
...common narrative and conversation. For instance, says he, " As, with my hat upon my head, I walked along the Strand, I there did meet another man, With his hat in his hand." Or, to render such poetry subservient to my own immediate use, " I therefore pray thee, Renny dear, That thou wilt... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 σελίδες
...narrative and conversation. " For instance," said he, — " As, with my hat upon my head, I walked along the strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand. Or, to render snch poctry subservient to my own immediate use, — I therefore pray thee, Renny dear That thou wilt... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 σελίδες
...narrative and conversation. " For instance," said he, — " As, with my hat upon my head, I walked along the strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand. Or, to render such poetry subservient to my own immediate use, — I therefore pray thee, Renny dear That thou wilt... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 σελίδες
...narrative and conversation. " For instance/' said he, — " As, with my hat upon my head, I walked along the strand, I there, did meet another man With his hat in his hand. Or, to render such poetry subservient to my own immediate use, — I therefore pray thee, Renny dear That thou wilt... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 σελίδες
...narrative and conversation. " For instance," says he: "As with my hat upon my head, I walked along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand." Or, to render such poetry subservient to my own immediate use: "I therefore pray thee, Renny dear, That thou wilt... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 σελίδες
...himself be fat ; when he mimics the old ballad style, with — As with my hat upon my head I walk'd along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand ; and when, again, he burlesques the prevailing style of epigram, in — If a man who turnips cries... | |
 | 1881 - 952 σελίδες
...style, Johnson was one of the first parodists, with his — As with my hat upon my head I walk'd along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand. Of later years we have had, among several, Mr. Cholmondeley Fennel], with his — It was the huge metropolis... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 σελίδες
...all. Havkau, 197. Hound numbers are always false. 235. As with my hat * upon my head I walk'd along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand.* (leorge Sleereiu. 310. Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. Hannah More. 4fi7.... | |
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As with my hat upon my head I walk'd along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand. 
