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" It seems very pretty," she said when she had finished it, "but it's rather hard to understand ! " (You see she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.) " Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas — only I don't... "
Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians - Hopkins, Pater and Wilde - Page 346
by Michael Matthew Kaylor - 2006 - 457 pages
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Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction

Paul R. Kroeger - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 388 pages
...very likely feel as Alice did (pp. 134136): "It seems very pretty," she said when she had finished it, "but it's rather hard to understand!" (You see she...with ideas only I don't exactly know what they are!" In the second verse, we can at least guess that the Jabberwock is some kind of beast, the Jubjub is...
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Hayford Hall: Hangovers, Erotics, and Modernist Aesthetics

Elizabeth Podnieks, Sandra Chait - House & Home - 2005 - 258 pages
...mirrored and not, concludes: '"It seems very pretty,' she said when she had finished it, 'but it's 56 rather hard to understand!' (You see she didn't like...to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.)" (24). Clara must take Alice's cavalier approach and not confess (not even to herself) that she cannot...
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The Zero Hour

Calvin Fryar - Religion - 2005 - 170 pages
...mome raths outgrabe." When she had finished reading it, she commented, '"It seems very pretty...but it's RATHER hard to understand!' (You see she didn't like to confess, ever to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.) 'Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only...
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Reading Assessment and Instruction for All Learners

Jeanne Shay Schumm - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 593 pages
...Bandersnatch!" . . . [As Alice put it,] "It seems very pretty," she said when she had finished it, "but it's rather hard to understand!" (You see she...ideas — only I don't exactly know what they are!" (Lewis Carroll, from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872/1996) As Pat Simmons...
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DNS and BIND: Help for System Administrators

Cricket Liu, Paul Albitz - Computers - 2006 - 642 pages
...show you how. CHAPTER 4 Setting Up BIND "It seems very pretty, " she said when she had finished it, "but it's rather hard to understand!" (You see she...ideas — only I don't exactly know what they are!" If you have been diligently reading each chapter of this book, you're probably anxious to get a nameserver...
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Child Language: Acquisition and Growth

Barbara C. Lust - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006
...remarks, with only syntax and no words which have substantive meaning, Jabberwocky "[s]omehow . . . seems to fill my head with ideas — only I don't exactly know what they are!" (17). When words are linked to the skeleton, children can label phrases; eg, nouns will head noun phrases,...
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The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World

Charles Yang - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 289 pages
...Carroll's "Jabberwocky" that is not quite so Jabberwocky. After all, it did impress Alice, however vaguely: "Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas — only I don't know exactly what they are!" The Jabberwocky poem is nonsense, but not gibberish. Alice would have...
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Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind

Margalit Fox - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2008 - 371 pages
...Page 178 CHAPTER 12 Grammar in Midair "It seems very pretty," s/ze sa/W when sfte had finished it, "but it's rather hard to understand!" (You see she...they are! However, somebody killed something: that's dear, at any rate — " —ALICE, ON HEARING "JABBERWOCKY," LEWIS CARROLL, THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS...
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David Hume's Critique of Infinity

Dale Jacquette - Science - 2001 - 420 pages
...or corresponding mental representations: 'It seems very pretty,' she said when she had finished it, 'but it's rather hard to understand!' (You see, she...with ideas — only I don't exactly know what they are!86 As a more relevant literary indictment of the problem of understanding the concept of infinity,...
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The Personalist, Volumes 5-6

Ralph Tyler Flewelling - Personality - 1924 - 922 pages
...Alice Sees "Saint Joan.")* TROWBRIDGE LARNED "It seems rather pretty," said Alice, rubbing her eyes, "but it's rather hard to understand!" (You see she...seems to fill my head with ideas — only I don't know exactly what they are !" "Stuff and nonsense !" cried the Queen. "Oh !" said Alice. "I never would...
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