 | 1911 - 1084 pages
...Oh, frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" He chortled in his joy. Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome raths outgrabe. This is Jabberwocky. As Alice herself said after reading it in "Through the Looking-Glass," "somehow... | |
 | Wit and humor - 1912 - 316 pages
...grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life! "—" Alice in Wonderland." °Jabberwocky 'TWAS brillig, and the slithy toves...my son ! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch I Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch! " 146 He took his vorpal sword in hand:... | |
 | Princeton University. Class of 1906 - 1912 - 442 pages
...Wisconsin Manitowoc Nash 356 1 Sentiment on Finishing this Book Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe ; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. — Through the Looking-Glass. v CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS to the Quinquennial Record of the Class... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - Literature - 1912 - 226 pages
...explain them, they baffle and elude and convince like '-'- 'Twas brillig. and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe ; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.1' Who are all these strange creatures, and why do they enter into our consciousness against... | |
 | Boris Sidis - Laughter - 1913 - 320 pages
..."Alice Through the Looking Glass" is specially instructive: 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. • ••••..••••..••• "When you say 'hill/ " the Queen interrupted, "I could show... | |
 | Honoré Morrow - Indians of North America - 1913 - 330 pages
...her fancy said they traveled. Suddenly she laughed crazily: " 'Twas brillig, and the slythy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe!" DeWitt laughed hoarsely. "That's just the way it looks to me, Rhoda. But you're just as crazy as I... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein, Mary Eleanor Roberts - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 336 pages
...Oh, frabjous day! Callooh! callay!" He chortled in his joy. 'Twos brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe ; All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome raths outgrabe. — LEWIS CARROLL. Is not all this very real after all? Perhaps, we feel, if only we knew a little... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - Quotations - 1914 - 1514 pages
...Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision." Chap. x. 'T was brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Through the Looking-glast . Chap. i. He chortled in his joy. • ibid. "The time has come," the Walrus... | |
 | Alice Gerstenberg - Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll) - 1915 - 170 pages
...lookingglass book, of course! And if I hold it up to a glass, the words will all go the right way again. JABBERWOCKY 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did...mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. It seems very pretty, but it's rather hard to understand; somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein - American periodicals - 1916 - 288 pages
...Oh, frabjous day! Callooh! callay!" He chortled in his joy. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome raths outgrabe. There are no invented words in the following anonymous stanzas from Punch, but only impossible concepts:... | |
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Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. 'Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch ! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch... 
