 ... 11 fall Like grass when he 'sa mowing.1 Clearly the hero of this song was merely a country bumpkin, and no doubt it was in this sense that Thomas G. Fessenden used the word when he made Jonathan Jolthead the hero of his poem called The Country Lovers,...  Original Poems - Page 69by Thomas Green Fessenden - 1806 - 203 pagesFull view - About this book
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...Farmer, a Boston weekly; paper. This poem was a favorite some sixty years ago. Tune—YANKEE DOODLE, A merry tale I will rehearse, As ever you did hear,...doodle, keep it up, Yankee doodle dandy, Mind the music, mind the step, And with the girls be handy. His father gave him bran new suit, And money, sir.... | |
 | Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 844 pages
...Farmer, a Boston weukly paper. This poem was a favorite some sixiy years ago. Tune — YANEEE DOODLE. A merry tale I will rehearse, As ever you did hear, sir. Ho-,v Jo -ithan set out. so fierce, To see his dearest dear, sir. Yankee doodle, keep it np, Yankee... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 564 pages
...BORN in Walpole, NH, 1771. DIED in Boston, Mass., 1837. THE COUNTRY LOVERS. [Original Poems. 1806.] A MERRY tale I will rehearse, As ever you did hear,...doodle, keep it up, Yankee doodle dandy, Mind the music — mind the step, And with the girls be handy. His father gave him bran new suit, And money,... | |
 | Albert Matthews - Brother Jonathan (Nickname) - 1902 - 70 pages
...Jolthead the hero of his poem called The Country Lovers, written in 1804. It begins as follows : — A MERRY tale I will rehearse, As ever you did hear,...Jonathan set out, so fierce, To see his dearest dear, sir.2 Two or three years later, Jonathan appears again in the title of a play written by L. Beach,... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1905 - 544 pages
...Jonathan Jolthead the hero of his poem called The Country Lovers, written in 1804. It begins as follows : A MERRY tale I will rehearse, As ever you did hear,...set out, so fierce, To see his dearest dear, sir.* Two or three years later, Jonathan appears again in the title of a play written by Lazarus Beach, this... | |
 | Colonial Society of Massachusetts - Local history - 1905 - 514 pages
...Jonathan Jolthead the hero of his poem called The Country Lovers, written in 1804. It begins as follows: A MERRY tale I will rehearse, As ever you did hear,...set out, so fierce, To see his dearest dear, sir. 2 Two or three years later, Jonathan appears again in the title of a play written by Lazarus Beach,... | |
 | Colonial Society of Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1905 - 560 pages
...Jonathan Jolthead the hero of his poem called The Country Lovers, written in 1804. It begins as follows : A MERRY tale I will rehearse, As ever you did hear,...Jonathan set out, so fierce, To see his dearest dear, sir.2 Two or three years later, Jonathan appears again in the title of a play written by Lazarus Beach,... | |
 | Colonial Society of Massachusetts - Local history - 1905 - 540 pages
...Jonathan Jolthead the hero of his poem called The Country Lovers, written in 1804. It begins as follows : A MERRY tale I will rehearse, As ever you did hear,...Jonathan set out, so fierce, To see his dearest dear, sir.2 Two or three years later, Jonathan appears again in the title of a play written by Lazarus Beach,... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - American literature - 1922 - 529 pages
...EI Jemima, won't you let me sing A little song I have for you? 3194. [Cut.] Jonathan's Courtship. EI A Merry Tale I will rehearse, As ever you did hear, Sir; 3195. Jonathan's Courtship. NYHS 3196. Joseph making himself known to his Brethren, f AAS When Joseph... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - American literature - 1922 - 530 pages
...EI Jemima, won't you let me sing A little song I have for you? 3194. [Cut.] Jonathan's Courtship. EI A Merry Tale I will rehearse, As ever you did hear, Sir; 3195. Jonathan's Courtship. NYHS 3196. Joseph making himself known to his Brethren, f AAS When Joseph... | |
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