 | Lewis Carroll - Adventure and adventurers - 1869 - 212 pages
...old" said the youth; one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever ; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose — What made you so...think I can listen all day to such stuff % Be off, or Fll kick you down stairs!" " That is Mot said right," said the Caterpillar. "Not quite right, I'm afraid,"... | |
 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - 1869 - 222 pages
...old," said the youth ; one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever ; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose — What made you so...have answered three questions, and that is enough," ftftid his father; "don't give yourself airs ! Do you think lean listen all day to such stuff? lit... | |
 | Literature - 1870 - 444 pages
...your eye was as steady as ever ; Yet vou balanced an eel on the end of your nose — What made you eo awfully clever ? ' " ' I have answered three questions, and that is enough,' Said his father; ' don't trivc yourself airs I Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? Be off, or I'll kick you down... | |
 | John Andrew Jennings - 1878 - 488 pages
...said the youth ; " one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever ; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose — What made you so...such stuff ? Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs ! " LEWIS CABBOLL. [By kind permission of the author.] A-SITTING ON A GATE. I'll tell thee everything... | |
 | Children's literature - 1889 - 472 pages
...made you eo awfully clever?" nose — "I have answered three questions, and that is enough," Said uis father; "don't give yourself airs. Do you think I...to such stuff? Be off. or I'll kick you down stairs !" CAT (applauds). That's every hit wrong. ALICE (despairingly). I knew it. CAT. Then why didn't you... | |
 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - 1884 - 296 pages
...times ¡ ! since then. " Wonderland-' chap, v., p. 60. * ll MAY 29. MAT 30. I ' l' < ' MAT 31. I 'VE answered three questions, and that is enough, Said his father, Don't give yourself airs. " Wonderland" chap, v., p. 66. WV 1 1 i < < ' :' i1 I ! I ! ', ', • I ! ', 1 ' ' 1 ; ' ' I i ' ;... | |
 | English wit and humor - 1886 - 300 pages
...old," said the youth, one would hardly suppose, That your eye was as steady as ever, Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose, What made you so awfully..." Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? He off, or I'll kick you down stairs ! " From Alice's Ailventuns in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. (Macmillan... | |
 | Robert Yelverton Tyrrell - English poetry - 1890 - 534 pages
...said the youth ; ' one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever ; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose — What made you so awfully clever ? ' ' I have answer'd three questions, andthat is enough,' Said his father ; ' don't give yourselves airs ! Do you... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Readers - 1894 - 586 pages
...old." said the youth ; "one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever ; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose — What made you so...listen all day to such stuff? Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs !" (By permusion of the Author.) THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE. KOBERT SOUTHEY. [See page 110.]... | |
 | Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - Literature - 1895 - 328 pages
...old," said the youth; " one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose — What made you so...such stuff? Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs! " YOUTH AND AGE. William Shakespeare. CRABBED age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of... | |
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In my youth,' said his father, 'I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life.' You are old,' said the youth, 'one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady... 
