 | Seba Smith - 1859 - 478 Seiten
...I could hear of it was just this varse : " Old Uncle Sam was a jolly old soul, And a jolly old BOU! was he ; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for Taylor and me." As he passed by me I see the name on the starn of the boat was New York Courier and... | |
 | Edward Fitch Underhill, Q. K. Philander Doesticks - 1859 - 350 Seiten
...the following language. " Jolly? yes, we'll be jolly. Old King Cole was a jolly old soul, and a jolly old soul was he. He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl — • wonder if he got it? My name is Dennis, my mother's maiden name was Moore, so that if I'd been... | |
 | Charles William Jones - 1859 - 120 Seiten
...and rebuild their churches. — CHUKTON'S Early English Church. LESSON III. THE SAXON SETTLEMENTS. " Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he." THIS is pretty nearly all that is known of the history of this country for some hundreds of years.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1862 - 760 Seiten
...a dung-cart and got squeezed to death by the wheel ? Was he the same person of whom the song says, Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ? And was his dog proud because his master was called King ? Here are questions to be proposed in the... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1863 - 512 Seiten
...state of intoxication, abject, remorseful, and lachrymose — WILMOT sober, but affecting inebriety. " He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three." Wil. Ha, ha ! I imagine myself like Bacchus between Silenus and his — ass ! Easy. Wilmot, you're... | |
 | John Strang - 1864 - 558 Seiten
...ballad thus speaks — • " Old King Coul Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ! And he called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three ."' But whilst antiquaries may be well acquainted with this and similar poetical annals of the past,... | |
 | William Evans Burton - 1864 - 552 Seiten
...dung cart, and got squeezed to death by the wheel ? Was he the same person of whom the song says, \ Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ? And was his dog proud because his master was called King ? Here are questions to be proposed in the... | |
 | William Kelly (of Leicester.) - 1865 - 334 Seiten
...and that some who were less 1 Page 264. 2 Page 44. 3 We are told in an " antique song," that — " Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; He call'd for his pipe, and he call'd for his bowl, And he call'd for his harpers three. Ev'ry harper... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1867 - 474 Seiten
...was — A flaxen-headed cow-boy, as simple as may be, And next, a merry plough-boy, that whistled — Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; He call'd for — The lass of Patie's mill, so bonny, blithe, and gay, And in spite of all my skill, she... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1867 - 302 Seiten
...was — A flaxen-headed cow-boy, as simple as may be, And next, a merry plough-boy, that whistled — Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he ; He call'd for — The lass of Patie's mill, so bonny, blithe, and gay, And in spite of all my skill, she... | |
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Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he: He called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. 
