 ... 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
 | Worthington Chauncey Ford - 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... | |
 | Daniel Hoffman - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 396 pages
...Thomas Green Fessenden, 'Jonathan's Courtship,' known also as The Country Lovers': A merry tale will I rehearse, As ever you did hear, sir, How Jonathan...musick— mind the step, And with the girls be handy. . . . 'Miss Sal, I's going to say, as how 'We'll spark it here tonight, 'I kind of love you, Sal, I... | |
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