 | Emile Cammaerts - 1926 - 124 pages
...Bandersnatch.' The reader will remember the first verse of this poem: 49 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome ruths outgrabe. Towards the end of the book, HumptyDumpty gives us a translation of these lines from... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1928 - 468 pages
...this from Lewis Carroll's ' Through the Looking Glass ' : ' 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe ; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe,' etc. ' Cesper erat ; tune lubriciles ultra via circum urgebant gyros gimbiculosque tophi ; Msestenui... | |
 | 1921 - 874 pages
...foolish free verse as upon one whose genius can raise a mortal to the skies or draw an angel down. Let us "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Nebraska bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch !" This must have been designed for a useful purpose... | |
 | Jörg Keller, Helen Leuninger - 2004 - 356 pages
...Lewis Carrolls Geschichte „Through the looking-glass": ( l ) Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome raths outgrabe. Überlegen Sie mal, wie viel Sie, ohne ein Wort zu kennen, bereits über seine Zugehörigkeit zu einer... | |
 | Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear - 2004 - 150 pages
...boy! O frabjous day! Gallooh! Gallay!" He chortled in his joy. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might; He did his very best to make The billows... | |
 | Joseph Robinette - 2004 - 52 pages
...In a book I read. I can almost remember it word for word. " Twas brillig, and the slithey toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe." JUDSON. That's the weirdest story I ever heard. DOROTHY. Shh. I don't think she's finished. ALICE (grabbing... | |
 | Harald Kittel - 2004 - 1180 pages
...Carroll's Jabberwacky (1871), whose first lines run as follows: "Twas brilig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe." The poem abounds in lexical neologisms, but it is nevertheless interprétable due to the retention... | |
 | Peter Moss - 2004 - 310 pages
...bite and claws that catch" as I recalled the relevant verse: "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the nionie raths outgrabe." In charge of our little band of volunteers was Colonel Traub, a Texan of huge... | |
 | Robert Hartwell Fiske - 2004 - 308 pages
...piece of nonsense verse that makes perfect sense. The father warns his son against a fearful creature ("Beware the Jabberwock, my son! / The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!"); it emerges from the wood ("The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey... | |
 | Robert Silverberg - 2003 - 584 pages
...Looking Glass.” His memory gave him the words‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimbel in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Idiotically he thought: Humpty Dumpty explained it. A wabe is the plot of grass around a sundial. A... | |
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Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. 'Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch ! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch... 
