| William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...contrast to this busy bustling hero, a piece of "still life" transplanted from p. 11 : — Hickory, dickory, dock, The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, And the mouse came down, Hickory, dickory, dock f Think, gentle reader, of the " grim and breathless hour... | |
| Frederick William N. Bayley - 1833 - 902 pages
...mouse, or he could not have considered the " Hi diddle diddle'' as an invocation : " Dickery, dickcry, dock, the mouse ran up the clock — the clock struck one, and down she run — Dickery, dickery, dock." This completely exposes his subtle theory about the invocation,... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1862 - 628 pages
...first run down of a clock on record, though. Do n't you remember, ' DICKERY, digory dock, The rat run up the clock ; The clock struck one And down he run, Dickory, digory dock ! ' Poor stuff, is it ? Anyhow a Frenchman once thought it worth translating. Which he... | |
| Caricatures and cartoons - 1850 - 556 pages
...nursery-legend of ' Dickory, Dickory, Dock,' which, with the permission of the House, he would now recite :— ' Dickory, Dickory, Dock, The mouse ran up the clock...struck one, And down he run, Dickory, Dickory, Dock.' (Laughter.) " Now, what had LORD JOHS done all this Session ? He had merely run np the Par llamentary... | |
| William Howitt - Adventure stories - 1855 - 386 pages
...fancy they had translated " Hickory, dickory dock " into that language, and were saying it: " Hickory, dickory dock, The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, The mouse was gone, — Hickory, dickory dock." This is exactly in the style of the leatherhead. His... | |
| Charles Henry Bennett - Drawing - 1858 - 82 pages
...As hickymore, hackymore, • Hung at the kitchen door, All day long. [SUNSHINE.] TTICKORY, diccory, dock, The mouse ran up the clock, The clock struck one, And down the mouse run, .. Hickory, .diccory, dock. •'* V TJARK, hark, The dogs do bark, The beggars are coming... | |
| Nellie Blessing Eyster - Adventure stories - 1867 - 290 pages
...began his original description of the monotonous adventures of a famous old mouse : — Hiccory diccory dock, The mouse ran up the clock ; The clock struck one, and down she run, So hiccory diceory dock. Hiccory diccory dock, The mouse was in the clock ; The clock struck... | |
| Literature - 1873 - 860 pages
...Darwinianism broadly and fairly as they. The upshot of it all will be something like " Hickory, dickery dock ! The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one And down she ran — Hickory, dickery dock 1" And whatever Parton or Arthur Helps may say in that stirring article,... | |
| Counting-out rhymes - 1871 - 40 pages
...Principis excelsi coram canis ecce Kevensis. Die mihi vicissim quaeso cujus canis es tu ? DICCORA DOGIUM. DICKORY dickory dock, The mouse ran up the clock, The clock struck one, The mouse ran down, Dickory dickory dock. Diccora diccora dogium, Ascendit mus horologium. Insonuit... | |
| James Colville - 1872 - 128 pages
...The cat's got in-to the tree. Pus-sy come down, Or I'll crack your crown, And toss you in-to the sea. Dick-or-y, dick-or-y, dock, The mouse ran up the clock; The clock struck one, Down the mouse ran, Dick-or-y, dick-or-y, dock. Mous-ie, mous-ie, come to me, The cat's from home to-day;... | |
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