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" JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after. "
The child's picture story book - Page 73
by Child - 1883
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The Philadelphia Souvenir: A Collection of Fugitive Pieces from ..., Issue 337

John Elihu Hall - American literature - 1826 - 230 pages
...feel an irresistible impulse to run for a doctor. The sound, too, charmingly " echoes to the sense," Jack fell down And broke his crown, And Gill came tumbling after. The quick succession of movements is indicated by an equally rapid motion of the short syllables, and...
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The Only True Mother Goose Melodies: Without Addition Or Abridgement ...

Nursery rhymes - 1833 - 154 pages
...learnt to read and spell, And then he loved her very well. Jack and Jill went up the hill, To draw a pail of water ; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. There was an old man, And he had a calf, And that's half ; He took him out...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 8

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1836 - 776 pages
...therefore, which must come home to men's bosoms with peculiar emphasis and effect : ' Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water ; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after.' There, ye play-wrights — ye dealers in the email wares of Fancy — there's...
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The Philadelphia Book, Or, Specimens of Metropolitan Literature

American literature - 1836 - 386 pages
...feel an irresistible impulse to run for a doctor. The sound, too, charmingly " echoes to the sense," Jack fell down And broke his crown, And Gill came tumbling after. The quick succession of movements is indicated by an equally rapid motion of the short syllables, and...
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An Essay on the Archæology of Our Popular Phrases and Nursery Rhymes, Volume 1

John Bellenden Ker - English language - 1837 - 316 pages
...old saying of " A fool and his money are soon parted." 18.—Jack and Jill Went up the hill To get a pail of water ; Jack fell down And broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Fly away, Jack! Fly away, Jill! Come again, Jack! Come again, Jill! Jack...
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Walks and Wanderings in the World of Literature, Volume 1

James Grant - 1839 - 332 pages
...then is the poem to whose matchless excellencies I am about to call the attention of my readers : — "Jack and Gill went up the hill To fetch a pail of...and broke his crown, And Gill came tumbling after !'' It will at once be perceived by the intelligent reader, that this poem has in it all the qualities...
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Walks and Wanderings in the World of Literature, Volume 1

James Grant - 1839 - 332 pages
...then is the poem to whose matchless excellencies I am about to call the attention of my readers : — "Jack and Gill went up the hill To fetch a pail of...and broke his crown, And Gill came tumbling after !" It will at once be perceived by the intelligent reader, that this poem has in it all the qualities...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 39

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1840 - 492 pages
...she must have been angry at my return ; for she commenced singing — " Jack and Gill went up lile hill To fetch a pail of water ; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Gill came tumbling after.'1 And then she broke out — " And where have you been, you good-for-nothing boy, all this time...
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Poor Jack

Frederick Marryat - Poor children - 1840 - 484 pages
...kissing me. On the contrary, she must have been angry at my return ; for she commenced singing — " Jack and Gill went up the hill To fetch a. pail of water ; Jack fell down and broke Iris crown, And Gill came tumbling after." And then she broke out — "And where have you been, you...
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The Early Naval Ballads of England, Volume 2, Issue 2

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Ballads, English - 1841 - 434 pages
...the Percy Society. It is perhaps a parody on the popular epigram on Jack and Jill : " Jack and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water ; Jack fell down, and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after." There was an old play, now lost, called " Jack and Jill." I may here take...
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