Frases de Joseph Jacobs (17 citações) | Citações e frases famosas

“But the Harp called out quite loud: Master! Master!”

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Joseph Jacobs livro English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk

“Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own?”

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Joseph Jacobs livro English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales

“There once was upon a time a poor widow who had an only son Jack, and a cow called Milky-White.”

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Joseph Jacobs livro English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk

“Little pig, little pig, let me come in.
To which the pig answered: Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin.
The wolf answered to that, Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow the house down.”

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Joseph Jacobs livro English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs

“Turn again Whittington,
Thrice Mayor of London”

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Joseph Jacobs livro English Fairy Tales

said by the bells of London
English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, Whittington and his Cat

“Fee-fi-fo-fum,
I smell the blood of an Englishman,
Be he alive or be he dead
I'll have his bones to grind my bread.”

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Joseph Jacobs livro English Fairy Tales

said by the ogre or giant. Now rendered as I'll grind his bones to make my bread.
English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk

“For out of every hole the rats came tumbling.”

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Joseph Jacobs livro English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales (1890), More English Fairy Tales (1894), Pied Piper

“You don't know what these beans are, said the man [that Jack meets]. If you plant them overnight, by morning they grew right up to the sky.”

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Joseph Jacobs livro English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk

“Fee, fi, fo, fum
I smell the blood of some earthly one.”

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Joseph Jacobs livro English Fairy Tales

said by a giant, see Jack and the Beanstalk above.
English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie

“Kind sir, if the truth I must tell,
At the sign of Basin of Water I dwell.”

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Joseph Jacobs livro English Fairy Tales

(said by Princess Catskin).
English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, Catskin

“Out the Old Woman jumped (of the window). And whether she broke her neck in the fall; or ran into the wood and was lost there…or taken up by a constable to the House of Correction for the vagrant she was I cannot tell. But the Three Bears never saw anything more of her.”

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Joseph Jacobs livro English Fairy Tales

(note Goldilocks doesn't feature in this particular version of the story).
English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears