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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Nursery Rhymes of England, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Nursery Rhymes of England Author: Various Illustrator: W. B. Scott Release Date: May 18, 2010 [EBook #32415] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY RHYMES OF ENGLAND *** Produced by David Edwards, Lesley Halamek and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE NURSERY RHYMES OF ENGLAND. [Illustration] [Illustration] THE NURSERY RHYMES OF ENGLAND: Collected by JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL. THE NURSERY RHYMES OF ENGLAND. BY JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY W. B. SCOTT. [Illustration] LONDON AND NEW YORK: FREDERICK WARNE AND CO. 1886. [Illustration] PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION. The great encouragement which has been given by the public to the previous editions of this little work, satisfactorily proves that, notwithstanding the extension of serious education to all but the very earliest periods of life, there still exists an undying love for the popular remnants of the ancient Scandinavian nursery literature. The infants and children of the nineteenth century have not, then, deserted the rhymes chanted so many ages since by the mothers of the North. This is a "great nursery fact"--a proof that there is contained in some of these traditional nonsense-rhymes a meaning and a romance, possibly intelligible only to very young minds, that exercise an influence on the fancy of children. It is obvious there must exist something of this kind; for no modern compositions are found to supply altogether the place of the ancient doggerel. The nursery rhyme is the novel and light reading of the infant scholar. It occupies, with respect to the A B C, the position of a romance which relieves the mind from the cares of a riper age. The absurdity and frivolity of a rhyme may naturally be its chief attractions to the very young; and there will be something lost from the imagination of t
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