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" Hence the literal English of the passage is: "It was evening, and the smooth active badgers were scratching and boring holes in the hill-side: all unhappy were the parrots; and the grave turtles squeaked out. "
The Strand Magazine - Page 627
1898
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The Book Lover: A Magazine of Book Lore, Issues 1-5

1900 - 532 pages
...or SHRIKE, from which are derived "shriek" and "creak"), "squeaked." "Hence." says Mr. Collingwood, "the literal English of the passage is, 'It was evening,...the parrots; and the green turtles squeaked out.' " It should be added that even now that all is clear and we know precisely what the poem means it has...
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The Literary World, Volume 30

1899 - 478 pages
...Shrike, from which are derived "shriek" and "creak"), "squeaked." " Hence," says Mr. Collingwood, " the literal English of the passage is, ' It was evening,...the parrots; and the green turtles squeaked out.'" The Glossary was found among the author's boyhood papers, and hints at the composite mind of a mati...
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Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home: The Story of His Life

Belle Moses - 1910 - 322 pages
...Outgrabe (past*tense of the verb to outgribe; it is connected with the old verb to grike or shrike, from which are derived "shriek" and "creak"), "squeaked."...probably sun-dials on the top of the hill, and the borogoves were afraid that their nests would be undermined. The hill was probably full of the nests...
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Sir John Tenniel: Aspects of His Work

Roger Simpson - 1994 - 204 pages
...the tradition of Barham. The mock poem is accompanied by a mock translation, which is still nonsense. "It was evening, and the smooth active badgers were scratching and boring holes into the hillside; all unhappy were the parrots; and the grave turtles squeaked out. "33 It's a send-up...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...of Anglo-Saxon poetry," Carroll interpreted the words and gave the literal "translation" as follows: "It was evening, and the smooth active badgers were...the hill-side; all unhappy were the parrots; and the grave turtles squeaked out." (The Annotated Alice, ed. Martin Gardner, 1960.) 2 It is a far, far better...
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Imagining Language: An Anthology

Jed Rasula, Steve McCaffery - 2001 - 644 pages
...OUTGRABE, past tense of the verb to OUTGRIBE (it is connected with the old verb to GRIKE or SHRIKE, from which are derived "shriek" and "creak.") "squeaked"...active badgers were scratching and boring holes in the hill side, all unhappy were the parrots, and the grave turtles squeaked out" There were probably sun...
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Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success

Allan A. Metcalf - 2004 - 230 pages
...you'll be quite content." of the words than Humpty Dumpty gives. Carroll's 1855 translation is: "1t was evening, and the smooth active badgers were scratching...the hill-side; all unhappy were the parrots; and the grave turtles squeaked out." The six stanzas he added for Through the LookingGlass were more sparing...
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Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass

Angelica Shirley Carpenter - 2003 - 148 pages
...Charles's tongue-in-cheek imitation of Anglo-Saxon, or Old English. Helpfully he provided a translation: "It was evening, and the smooth active badgers were...the hill-side: all unhappy were the parrots; and the grave turtles squeaked out." Charles was thrilled when his uncle, Skeffington Lutwidge, came to Croft...
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Poet Lore, Volume 11

Hermann Sudermann - 1899 - 654 pages
...Shtike, from which are derived "shriek" and "creak"), "squeaked." " Hence," says Mr. Collingwood, " the literal English of the passage is : 'It was evening,...the parrots ; and the green turtles squeaked out.' " As usual the " literal " English is very disappointing. The spiritual connotations of the passage...
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