 | English poets - 1801 - 454 Seiten
...feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way — No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight ! He would have kiss'd her once or twice, But she would not, she was so nice, She would not do 't in sight : And then... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 488 Seiten
...It look'd like the great collar (just) About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way — No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight ! He would have kiss'd... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 476 Seiten
...feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way — No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight ! She would not do't in sight : And then she look'd as who should say, " I will do what I list to-day,... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 474 Seiten
...must, It look'd like the great collar, just, About our young cok's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way- — No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight ! She would not do't... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 Seiten
...twenty-two years before him, and dying at an early period of life : Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : &c. SIR ]. SUCKLING'S Balladon a Wedding, CLXV. UPON HIS GREY HAIRS. ' me not, though I be grey,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 802 Seiten
...It look'd like the great collar (jnst) About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light: Bnt oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. He would have kist... | |
 | George Ellis - 1811 - 476 Seiten
...feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way — No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight ! He would have kiss'd her once or twice, But she would not, she was so nice, She would not do't in sight : And then... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 Seiten
...It look'd like the great collar (just) About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. Her cheeks so rare... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - 386 Seiten
...description of the Bride, in Sir John Suckling's poem of the Wedding ; " Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light." As for those, who, with bad shapes, make an useless display of their legs, I must own, I have no excuse... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 Seiten
...It look'd like the great collar (just) About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way! No sun upon the Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. Her cheeks so rare... | |
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Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way — No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. 
