Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, 'Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for... The modern elocutionist, compiled and ed. by J.A. Jennings - Page 348edited by - 1878Full view - About this book
| James Madison Watson - 1880 - 352 pages
...friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, eou§m§, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by ten§ and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives —...From street to street he piped advancing, And step for step they followed dancing, Until they came to the river We§er Whe'rein all plunged and perislied... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1872 - 610 pages
...Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pr1cking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters,...husbands, wives, Followed the piper for their lives." He leads them to the river, when all are drowned except one, who describes the effect of the piping:... | |
| James D. McCabe - 1884 - 956 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...From street to street he piped, advancing, And step for step they followed dancing, Until they came to the river Weser Wherein all plunged and perished,... | |
| Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Mothers, fathers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...From street to street he piped, advancing, And step for step they followed, dancing, Until they came to the river Weser, Wherein all plunged and perished... | |
| Anna Callender Brackett - 1881 - 348 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...lives. From street to street he piped, advancing, Anil step for step they followed, dancing, Until they came to the river Weser Wherein all plunged and... | |
| Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 pages
...Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, p. 27. "543. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. . . . Miss AM Lea." ' From street to street he piped advancing, And step...followed dancing, Until they came to the river Weser, Into which all plunged and perished.' — R, Browning. Hiss Anna Lea (now Mrs. Marriott) is an American... | |
| Robert Browning - 1881 - 1006 pages
...Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, p. 27. "543. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. . . . Miss AM Lea." ' From street to street he piped advancing, And step...followed dancing, Until they came to the river Weser, Into which all plunged and perished.' — R. Browning. Miss Anna Lea (now Mrs. Merritt) is an American... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Follow'd e bird from the for step they follow'd dancing. Until they came to the river Weser, Wherein all plunged and pemh'd,... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins. Cocking tails ami pricking whiskers: Families by tens and dozens, Brothers,...plunged and perished — Save one who, stout as Julius Caesar, Swam across and lived to carry (As he the manuscript he cherished) To rat-land home his commentary,... | |
| Coventry Patmore - 1882 - 376 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails, and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...From street to street he piped, advancing, And step for step they followed dancing, Until they came to the river Weser Wherein all plunged and perished,... | |
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