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" The Queen of Hearts She made some tarts, All on a summer's day; The Knave of Hearts He stole those tarts, And took them clean away. The King of Hearts Called for the tarts, And beat the Knave full sore; The Knave of Hearts Brought back the tarts, And... "
Walks and Wanderings in the World of Literature - Page 5
by James Grant - 1839
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 108

1858 - 620 pages
...we read his youthful imitator'a critical analysis of what he designates the epic poem beginning— ' The queen of hearts She made some tarts All on a summer's day.' , If self-love did not blind the best of us to our own errors and absurdities, almost every modern...
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Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 ..., Volume 8

1806 - 666 pages
...in vain. Let Leuctra s;tv, let JManttnea tell, Jlpw great Epamiuonclas fought and fell! " Not" Tire Queen of Hearts, She made some tarts, All on a summer's day: Th&Kriare of Hearts lie stole those tarts, Aud—took them quite'—away '." Some Have imagined that...
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The Microcosm: A Periodical Work, Volume 1

John Smith, George Canning, Robert Percy Smith, John Hookham Frere - 1809 - 192 pages
...or, as he more aptly phrases it, '* elegans ejepletivvm." The passage therefore must stand thus, . " The Queen of Hearts She made some tarts All on a summer's day." And thus ends the first part, or beginning, which is simple and unembellished ; opens the subject in...
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The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 424 pages
...or, as he more aptly phrases it " elegans expletivum." The passage therefore must stand thus : — The Queen of Hearts She made some tarts, • All on a summer's day. And thus ends the first part or beginning ; which is simple and unembellished ; opens the subject in...
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Microcosm. General index

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 426 pages
...expletive, or, as he more aptly phrases it, ' elegans expletivum.' The passage therefore must stand thus, The Queen of Hearts She made some Tarts All on a summer's day. And thus ends the first part, or beginning, which is simple and unembellished; opens the subject in...
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The microcosm [ed. by G. Canning and others]. [Another]

George Canning - 1825 - 312 pages
...expletive, or, as he more aptly phrases it, " elegans expleiivum." The passage therefore must stand thus, " The Queen of Hearts She made some tarts All on a summer's day." And thus ends the first part or beginning, which is simple and unembellished ; opens the subject in...
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The Royal Lady's Magazine, and Archives of the Court of St. James's, Volume 5

Great Britain - 1833 - 232 pages
...perfect epic poem in the world : some of our readers may probably not recollect it — it runneth thus : The queen of hearts She made some tarts, All on a summer's day : The knave of hearts He stole those tarts, And took them quite away. The king of hearts,' Called for...
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Walks and Wanderings in the World of Literature, Volume 1

James Grant - 1839 - 332 pages
...with man's religious interests, and that the other has reference to intellectual merit alone, I B 2 would not shrink from comparing the nobleness of the...thus early pointed out for himself, is solely to be ascribe. 1 to the circumstance of his comprehensive mind having been, from that period until the time...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 264

Literature - 1910 - 862 pages
...honorable names show the injustice of the aspersion oast on the Order of Knaves by the familiar rhyme: — The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer's day; The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarte, And took them all away. "Knave" is, of course, the German...
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The Nursery Rhymes of England: Collected Chiefly from Oral Tradition

Nursery rhymes - 1846 - 300 pages
...the like before; And the kitchen clock, I was going to wind, Said he never saw the like behind ! LXV. THE Queen of Hearts She made some tarts, All on a summer's day: The Knave of Hearts He stole the tarts, And took them, clean away. The King of Hearts CaU'd for the...
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