 | Education - 1918 - 684 pages
...episodes.. (Children's aim.) I Introduction, John Gilpin and His Wife at Home — Stanzas 1-8; beginning: "John Gilpin was a citizen Of credit and renown, A...train-band captain eke was he, Of famous London town." Teacher How much of this poem is introduction? Children Eight stanzas. T. What might we call the Introduction?... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1984 - 1572 pages
...It won't do. We cannot sing to this tune any longer. We greatly prefer, "John Gilpin was a gentleman ek The weed, though vile, that props the nerves when Or— "Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more, He used to wear an over-coat... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 314 pages
...This is exactly the basic pattern employed by Cowper in "The Diverting History of John Gilpin" (1782): John Gilpin was a citizen Of credit and renown, A...train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. Both poets are imitating ballad measure, and their stanzas bear a parodic relation to traditional lyric.... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...FaFP; FiP; FPL; HelP; LiTB; NOBE; NOCV; NOEC; NoP; PoEL-3; PWR; SeCePo; TOP; TrGrPo; WGRP John Gilptn 6 ; TrCP On the Beach at Fontana 3 Wind whines and whines (1. 1—4) 7 Now let us sing, Long live the king, And Gilpin long live he; And when he next doth ride... | |
 | Catherine Parr Strickland Traill - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 414 pages
...1833, p. 102. 42.14—15 Johnny Gilpin ... might have saved both hat and wig] Compare William Cowper, "The Diverting History Of John Gilpin, Showing How...Farther Than He Intended, And Came Safe Home Again," 1782. John Gilpin, riding a borrowed horse, loses "hat and wig" twice, the first time because "He grasp'd... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home! 2613 'John Gilpin' n( 2614 'Light Shining out of Darkness' God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants... | |
 | James Prosek - Sports & Recreation - 2010 - 350 pages
...enough, a poem by William Cowper called "The Diverting History of John Gilpin," which is subtitled "showing how he went farther than he intended and came safe home again. " But it wasn't for want that our situation turn out like Gilpin's that it came to mind, but because... | |
 | William Cowper - Literary Collections - 2003 - 124 pages
...DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPEN (1782) Showing how he went farther than he intended, and came home safe again. John Gilpin was a citizen Of credit and renown,...captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear— Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday... | |
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JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown: A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, " Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. "To-morrow is our wedding-day,... 
