 | John Daniel Morell - Oral reading - 1874 - 336 pages
...leads so happy a life that even the king envies him. . THERE dwelt a miller hale 1 and bold Beside the river Dee ; He worked and sang from morn till...the burden of his song For ever used to be,' — "I envy nobody; no not I, And nobody envies me ! " " Thou'rt wrong, my friend ! " said old King Hal, "... | |
 | Readers - 1874 - 226 pages
...watchman that's guarding LESSON LXXII. THE MILLER OF THE DEE. dwelt a miller, hale and bold, _ Beside the river Dee; He worked and sang from morn till night,...the burden of his song For ever used to be — "I envy nobody, no, not I, And nobody envies me !" n. " Thou'rt wrong, my friend," said old King Hal,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 pages
...darling child, my lovely child, sleep. THE MILLER OF THE DEE. THERE dwelt a miller hale and bold Beside the river Dee ; He worked and sang from morn till...the burden of his song For ever used to be, — " I envy nobody ; no, not I, And nobody envies me ! " " Thou'rt wrong, my friend ! " said old King Hal,... | |
 | Luther Orlando Emerson - 1874 - 152 pages
...friend," said old King Hal, " As wrong as wrong can -__^===t=^^4±:fc=g=8jug±afc — a=±==r^_-^=z_ ? - p Dee; He worked and sang from morn till night, No lark more blithe than be ; For could my heart be light as tl due, I'd glad - ly change with he ; And this the bur - den of... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1874 - 588 pages
...blackbird once Lived in a cherry-tree, He chirped and sung from morn till night, No bird so blithe as he ; And this the burden of his song For ever used to be : Good boys shall have cherries as soon as they 're ripe, But naughty boys none from me. DCXLIV. LITTLE... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...BICKERSTAFF. Circa 1735- 1787. Hope ! thou nurse of young desire. Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. I. There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the river Dee ; He work'd and sung from morn till night : No lark more blithe than he. Ibid. Act \. Sc. 2. 1 Si vis me... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...BICKERSTAFF. Circa 1735 - 1787. Hope ! thou nurse of young desire. Love in a Village. Act'\.Sc. I. There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the river Dee ; He work'd and sung from morn till night . No lark more blithe than he. Ibid. Act i. Sc. 2. And this the... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Poetry - 1876 - 654 pages
...MILLER.) I. THERE dwelt a miller hale and bold, Beside the river Dee ; He wrought and sang from morn to night, No lark more blithe than he ; And this the burden of his song For ever used to be, — ' I envy nobody, no, not I, And nobody envies me ! ' n. 'Thon'rt wrong, my friend !' said old King .Hal,... | |
 | Marie Elise Turner T. Lauder - Great Britain - 1876 - 398 pages
...angle of the walls, close by the old bridge, are the famous Dee Mills, as old as the Norman conquest. " There was a jolly miller once lived on the river Dee, He worked and sang from morn till night, none was BO blithe as he, A nd still the burden of his song for ever used to be, I care for nobody,... | |
 | Lucy D Sale Barker - 1876 - 390 pages
...jolly Miller Lived on the river Dee; He worked and sung from morn till night,— No lark so blithe as he. And this the burden of his song For ever* used to be : — I care for nobody—no ! not I, Since nobody cares for me. DONKEYS. HERE certainly are few things prettier to... | |
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Beside the river Dee ; He worked and sang from morn till night, No lark more blithe than he ; And this the burden of his song For ever used to be, — " I envy nobody ; no, not I, And nobody envies me ! " 
