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A Handbook of Children's Literature - Methods and Materials Emelyn E. Gardner No preview available - 2007 |
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Page 174 - Pocket-Book, intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly, with an agreeable Letter to read from Jack the Giant Killer, as also a Ball and Pincushion, the use of which will infallibly make Tommy a good Boy, and Polly a Good Girl.
Page 45 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: 'Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Page 170 - The Frog by nature is both damp and cold, Her mouth is large, her belly much will hold; She sits somewhat ascending, loves to be Croaking in gardens, though unpleasantly.
Page 170 - When by spectators I am told, What beauty doth adorn me, Or in a glass when I behold How sweetly God did form me, Hath God such comeliness bestowed And on me made to dwell What pity such a pretty maid As I should go to Hell.
Page 118 - MISTRESS MARY, quite contrary, How does your garden grow?" "With silver bells and cockle shells And pretty maids all in a row.
Page 170 - A Token for Children, being an Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives and Joyful Deaths of Several Young Children, by James Janeway.
Page 283 - Baby bunting. — A frog he would a-wooing go. — The fox jumps over the parson's gate.
Page 120 - There was a little turtle. He lived in a box. He swam in a puddle. He climbed on the rocks. He snapped at a mosquito.
Page 170 - COMPARISON. The hypocrite is like unto this frog, As like as is the puppy to the dog. He is of nature cold, his mouth is wide To prate, and at true goodness to deride. He mounts his head as if he was above The world, when yet 'tis that which has his love ; And though he seeks in churches for to croak, He neither loveth Jesus nor His yoke.