 | 1901 - 892 páginas
...less than two hundred and twelve of these " Limericks," of which the following are fair specimens : There was an old man of Thermopylae. Who never did...: " If you choose To boil eggs in your shoes, You cannot remain in Thermopylae. " There was an old person of Ware Who rode on the back of a bear ; When... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1901 - 916 páginas
...these " Limericks," of which the following are fair specimens : There was an old man of Thermopylsc. Who never did anything properly ; But they said : "If you choose To boil eggs in your shoes, You cannot remain in Thermopylae." There was an old person of Ware Who rode on the back of a bear ; When... | |
 | Edward Lear - 1888 - 260 páginas
...hundred and ninety Large apples and pears, which he threw unawares At the heads of the people of Minety. There was an old man of Thermopylae, Who never did...said, " If you choose to boil eggs in your shoes, There was an old person of Deal, Who in walking used only his heel; When they said, "Tell us why?"... | |
 | E. M. Church - 1895 - 410 páginas
...throw off some nonsense ditty, as in the mid-day halt by the hot sulphursprings of Thermopylae : — " There was an old man of Thermopylae Who never did anything properly." But, sketching too eagerly in the hot July weather, he was taken ill of a fever in the house of our friend... | |
 | George Milbry Gould - 1900 - 198 páginas
...sometimes feel as if this were advisable. One may even have recalled to mind the stanza of a great poet : " There was an old man of Thermopylae, Who never did...your shoes, You shall never remain in Thermopylae." Again, it may be suspected that local feeling and even a personal animus, indirectly at least, may... | |
 | 1901 - 830 páginas
...fish; And she said, "It's a fact the whole world knows, That Pobblcs are happier without their toes." There was an old man of Thermopylae. Who never did...said: "If you choose To boil eggs in your shoes, You cannot remain in Thermopylae" There was an old person of Ware Who rode on the back of a bear; When... | |
 | Joel Chandler Harris - 1902 - 442 páginas
...excessively cool; So she put it to boil by the aid of some oil, That ingenious Young Lady of Poole. There was an Old Man of Thermopylae, Who never did...said, " If you choose to boil eggs in your shoes, You should never remain in Thermopylae." —©— There was a Young Person of Crete, Whose toilette was... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - 1903 - 330 páginas
...feared ! — Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren Have all built their nests in my beard." [260] THERE was an old man of Thermopylae, Who never did anything properly ; But they said : u If you choose To boil eggs in your shoes, You cannot remain in Thermopylae." THERE was an Old Man... | |
 | Edward Lear - 1904 - 460 páginas
...which he threw unawares At the heads of the people of Minety. There was an old man of Thermopyloe, Who never did anything properly; But they said, "...boil eggs in your shoes, You shall never remain in Thermopylos." There was an old person of Deal, Who in walking used only his heel; When they said, "Tell... | |
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There was an Old Man of Thermopylae, who never did anything properly ; But they said, " If you choose to boil Eggs in your Shoes, You shall never remain in Thermopylae. 
