The appeal to the imagination by evoking a sense of wonder accounts for the abiding place which these rhymes and jingles have in the literature of the nursery.
Experience has proved these old rhymes and jingles to be best fitted for the awakening intelligence of the child.
He has learned many of the jingles by word of mouth before his school age; but he now needs to own the book himself, read the words, and look at the pictures.
Rhymes and jingles and mother goose and fairy tales and Santa Claus are all founded on an understanding of this.
The more rhymes and jingles it can hear, the more fairy tales, stories of adventure, thrilling deeds of heroism, the better it is for the forming traits of character.
She still occasionally wrote jingles and talked in rhyme; but undeniably she had lost her courage and her enthusiasm.
Keith was not listening to Susan's rhymes and jingles now, nor was he tramping through the woods in search of the first sign of spring.
The songs and jingles are for those who like to make rhymes, or to sing about everything that they do.
Since I visited you half the things I see turn into dolls as I look at them, and I immediately begin to make songs or jingles about them just as you do.
There are plenty of characters in Mother Goose's jingles for every one to have one appear in, but it is no harm if there are several of a kind.
They would be lost and bored in the presence of the elegy or the sonnet; but we may find jingles and songs, and later on odes, fit and right for them.
All the verses about animals that have come down to us in the traditionary jingles are good as art and on the whole, fair to the animals.
But gradually you learn some of these calls too--there are no rhymes or jingles for them--and that worry blows over.
The trick is the same as with the army calls and many of the jingles are the same.
If there is any man who can write verse or jingleshe has to exercise his muse when any gala day comes.
The origin of Mother Goose as the protecting genius of the various familiar jingles has been an interesting field of speculation and research.
They preach man who say that so soon as the penny jingles into the money-box, the soul flies out [of purgatory].
It is certain that when the penny jingles into the money-box, gain and avarice can be increased, but the result of the intercession of the Church is in the power of God alone.
Many of the Jingles in this collection have not been printed before--at least, not to the editor's knowledge.
Of not many Jingles can it be said that any version is the oldest, the authoritative, the real version.
Attention is directed to the classification of the Nursery Jingles as indicated in the Contents.
The perfection of the Mother Goose jingles for little folks is in their fulfillment of this principle.
It is a commonplace of observation that no one can duplicate the success of Mother Goose, whether she be thought of as the maker of jingles or the teller of tales.
Mother Graham was still sulking in her room, and Lillian was busy in Dicky's improvised studio with some drawings and jingles which were a rush order.
The collection of jingles we know and love as the "Melodies of Mother Goose" are evidently drawn from a variety of sources.
None of the earlier editions, however, contained all the rhymes so well known at the present day, since every decade has added its quota to the mass of jingles attributed to "Mother Goose.
The Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists put nursery rhymes in the mouths of characters; a few jingles creep into the Miscellanies, such as "The Pills to purge Melancholy.
The jingleson the King of France, against the Scots in the time of James I.
The concocted names of objects having to do with preparation of food seem not to be made by jingles or twistings, but to be descriptive ritualistic circumlocutions somewhat like the long compound names of myth personages.
These devices yield a list that jingles with initial and final rhymes: but the parts seem unetymological.
Bronze Henri himself, though he wore a cockade once, jingles down from the Pont Neuf, where Patrie floats in Danger.
Savonnieres' arm is raised to strike: the bullet of a Lecointrian musket shatters it; the brandished sabre jingles down harmless.
Having thus, I trust, shown that the nursery has an archaeology, the study of which may eventually lead to important results, the jingles and songs of our childhood are defended from the imputation of exclusive frivolity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jingles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
