Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their... The Patriotic Speaker: Consisting of Specimens of Modern Eloquence, Together ... - Page 422by Robert Raikes Raymond - 1864 - 524 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers; Families by tens and...From street to street he piped advancing, And step by step they followed dancing, Until they came to the river Weser Wherein all plunged and perished... | |
| American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...street to street he piped advancing, And step for step he followed dancing, Until they came to the river Weser Wherein all plunged and perished ! — Save... | |
| 1846 - 534 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...husbands, wives, Followed the Piper for their lives Until they came to the river Weser, Wherein all plunged and perished z 2 — Save one, who stout as... | |
| Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...plunged and perished — Save one who, stout as Julius Csesar, Swam across and lived to carry (As he the manuscript he cherished) To Rat-land home his commentary,... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tins and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives —...plunged and perished — Save one, who, stout as Julius Ctesar, Swam across and lived to carry (As he the manuscript he cherished) To Rat-land home his commentary,... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1873 - 586 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young pickers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...And step for step they followed dancing, Until they camo to the river Weser, Wherein all plunged and perished ! Save one who, stout as Julius (Vsar, Swam... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - American periodicals - 1860 - 794 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friakcrs, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...From street to street he piped advancing, And step by step they followed dancing, Until they came to the river Weser, Wherein all plunged and perished.... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - Literature - 1860 - 786 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, eousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...husbands, wives, Followed the Piper for their lives. From strcet to strcet he piped advancing, And step by step they followed dancing, Until they came to the... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if an army muttered ; And the muttering grew to a grumbling ;...plunged and perished Save one, who, stout as Julius Caesar, Swam across, and lived to carry (As he the manuscript he cherished) To Bat-land home his commentary,... | |
| 1873 - 618 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young pickers, fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...plunged and perished ! Save one who, stout as Julius Ca'sar, Swam across and lived to carry (As he, the manuscript had cherished) To Rat-land home his commentary."... | |
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