 | Frederic Edward Weatherly - Curiosity - 1874 - 168 pages
...gracefully waved his hand to his listening companions — " the family legend properly runs thus : ' The Queen of Hearts, She made some tarts, All on a summer's day ; The Queen of Hearts Was fond of tarts, And stowed them safe away. The Queen of Hearts Thought of her tarts... | |
 | John Timbs - Humorists - 1874 - 360 pages
...youthful imitator's critical analysis of what he designates the epic poem beginning — " The qneen of hearts She made some tarts All on a summer's day." The inimitable portrait of Adelaide, in the Stranger, is from the Progress of Civil Society — " With... | |
 | Lily Spender - 1875 - 336 pages
...wandering, for presently she raised herself upon her elbow, and began singing aloud the childish lines— " The queen of hearts she made some tarts, All on a Summer's day," and then, catching sight of her sister, she said, with one of her usual attempts at merriment, " Ah,... | |
 | Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - Europe - 1876 - 626 pages
...find anything of its kind superior to a satirical commentary upon the epic merits of an old ballad : " The queen of hearts She made some tarts All on a summer's day," &c.* " I cannot leave this line," says the witty commentator, " without remarking, that one of the... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1878 - 252 pages
...little feet not big ; Great feet belong to the grunting hog, And the pettitoes to the little pig. ' The queen of hearts, She made some tarts, All on a...day ; The knave of hearts, He stole those tarts, And with them ran away : The king of hearts Called for those tarts, And beat the knave full sore; The knave... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 522 pages
...Chevy Chase.' * It professes to furnish a commentary on the merits of the well known nursery-song — " The Queen of Hearts She made some tarts, All on a summer's day," • This is the general statement, but is it not quite as much a burlesque of Johnson ? Here is a bit... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - Statesmen - 1879 - 370 pages
...give an extract from this satire on the pedantry and farfetched conclusion of commentators : — " The queen of hearts She made some tarts All on a summer's day." " All on a summer's day." " I cannot leave this line without remarking that one of the Scribleri, a... | |
 | James Goulton Constable - 1880 - 178 pages
...when he made that statement, one would think it must have been the King of Hearts, because we know — The Queen of Hearts She made some tarts All on a summer's day ; The Knave of Hearts He took those tarts And with them ran away. I wonder whether a royal cook could learn without much difficulty... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1881 - 96 pages
...hurt any one; but he is a sort of man that I like to part with as soon as I can. THE QUEEN'S TARTS. The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts All on a summer's day; The Knave of Hearts he stole the The Queen of Hearts she missed her tarts, And sent to tell the King; The King of Hearts he liked... | |
 | Sports - 1908 - 910 pages
...to please you! Now the queen of hearts," droned the landlady as, holding the card aloft, she paused, "the queen of hearts, she made some tarts all on a summer's day," laying the card deliberately on the table, "but — but — she didn't expect to have her head took... | |
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The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away! 
