The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes (Classic Reprint)

I ntrochidioji concern with such profound interpretations, any more than have the little people who love the old jingles best. The earliest known collection of Nursery Rhymes was published about T760 by John Newbery, the first publisher who devoted his attention to very young readers. In his book, which included songs from the plays of Shakespeare, some of the Rhymes appeared with titles which sound strange to our ears; thus Ding, Dong, Bell was called Plato sS ong ,while There were Two Birds sat on aS tone was Aristotle sS ong .T oeach Rhyme was appended a moral maxim, as for example, to Is John Smith within.- is added Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it .M ost of the Rhymes in this little Newbery collection, amongst them There was a little Man and he wooed a little Maid and The Wise Men of Gotham ,are repeated in the present volume so far as may be in accordance with that early text. Others have been compared with early versions in chap-books issued late in, tJ ie,-e gt-t epth ce;ntury or early in the nineteenths Students divide our rhymes ml:p nircatilvti pieces, historical, folk-lore, game itK ynjes jtfoiiiiting-out rhymes, jingles, fragments, anrd so fftrth but for the children for whom and by whom they are remembered, and for whose sake they are here collected and pictured anew, they are just Nursery Rhymes.
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