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Quotation by Lewis Carroll
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A Lesson in Latin (1860)Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Macmillan (1865)Alice and the Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Macmillan (1865)Alice and the White Queen, in Through the Looking-Glass (1872)Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)Related Subjects
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I cried, "Come, tell me how you live!"
And thumped him on the head.
And thumped him on the head.
Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898), British author, mathematician. The White Knight's song, in Through the Looking-Glass, "It's My Own Invention," (1865).
The song, titled in an earlier version Upon the Lonely Moor (1856), is a parody of Wordsworth's Resolution and Independence, which includes the lines, "My question eagerly I did renew, 'How is it that you live, and what is it you do?'..."
The song, titled in an earlier version Upon the Lonely Moor (1856), is a parody of Wordsworth's Resolution and Independence, which includes the lines, "My question eagerly I did renew, 'How is it that you live, and what is it you do?'..."
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