Mother Goose's melodies : or Songs for the nursery (1879)
Kappes, Alfred, 1850-1894, ill · Boston : Houghton, Osgood and Company · leaf 16
f aspiring To suckle fools and chronicle small beer; but he is content to submit the book to the verdict of the nurseryand of those children of a larger growth for whom the associa-tions connected with the nursery have not lost all their charm. Preface. IX The Publishers have taken advantage of a… … The nobility of the goose is not so obvious as that of the swan. Yet [the word]was in ancient and honorable use as a mans name. Genseric, the name of thegreat Vandal chief, is referred by Grimm to gdnserich, a gander. But it was nodoubt the wild goose which gave the name, and, if we consider, we…
Nursery rhymes
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