 | 1846 - 300 str.
...a woman three ells and three quarters long.' See Mr. Thorns' Preface to ' Tom a Lincoln,' p. xi.] I HAD a little husband, No bigger than my thumb, I put...there I bid him drum. I bought a little horse, That galloped up and down; I bridled him, and saddled him, And sent him out of town. I gave him some garters,... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1849 - 308 str.
...three ells and three quarters long." This personage is probably commemorated in the nursery rhyme, I had a little husband No bigger than my thumb : I put him in a pint-pot, And there I bid turn drum. According to popular tradition, Tom Thumb died at Lincoln, and... | |
 | Dame Goslin (pseud.) - 1851 - 110 str.
...backwards and forwards, And here we go round, round, roundy. Rigadoon, rigadoon, now let him fly. I HAD a little husband No bigger than my thumb, I put...some garters, To garter up his hose, And a little handkerchief, To wipe his pretty nose. A LITTLE boy went into a barn, And lay down on some hay ; An... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1856 - 330 str.
...exclaimed, "Veil! you are a nice little uian," and then ™tamenoed singing the old refrain— -" I had a little husband no bigger than my thumb, I put him in a pint pot, and there I bid him drnm :" when Moggy, who had turned back, saluted her with such a box on the ear that she made the drum... | |
 | 1858 - 362 str.
...See Mr. Thorns* Preface to ' Tom a Lincoln/ p. xi.] I HAD a little husband, No bigger than my thumb j I put him in a pint pot, And there I bid him drum. I bought a little horse, That galloped up and down ; I bridled him, and saddled him, And sent him out of town. I gave him some garters,... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1866 - 322 str.
...following little poemet, which is manifestly borrowed from the ancient legend of Tom Thumb : — " I had a little husband, No bigger than my thumb, I put him iu a pint pot, And there I bid him drum. I bought a little horse, That galloped up and down ; I bridled... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1865 - 422 str.
...and exclaimed, " Vell! you are a nice little man," and then commenced singing the old refrain — " I had a little husband no bigger than my thumb, I put him in a pint pot, and there I bid him drum:" when Moggy, who had turned back, saluted her with such a box on the ear that she made the drum of it... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1866 - 322 str.
...following little poemet, which is manifestly borrowed from the ancient legend of Tom Thumb : — "I had a little husband, No bigger than my thumb, I put...there I bid him drum. I bought a little horse, That galloped up and down ; I bridled him, and saddled him, And sent him out of town. I gave him some garters... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1866 - 348 str.
...following little poemet, which is manifestly borrowed from the ancient legend of Tom Thumb : — " I had a little husband, No bigger than my thumb, I put...there I bid him drum. I bought a little horse, That galloped up and down ; I bridled him, and saddled him, And sent him out of town. I gave him some garters... | |
 | Sarah Hammond Palfrey - 1866 - 436 str.
...skin and bone, as if he had been a tapemeasure, from the divan on which he had been lounging. " ' I had a little husband No bigger than my thumb. I put him in a pint-pot, And there I bid him drum;' . and then I took a most ecstatic twirl or two with Robert Jones,... | |
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I HAD a little husband, No bigger than my thumb, I put him in a pint pot, And there I bid him drum. I bought a little horse, That galloped up and down; I bridled him, and saddled him, And sent him out of town. I gave him some garters, To garter up his... 
