 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 Seiten
...active movements of the feet, which Sir John Suckling has imitated in his ballad of the " Wedding : " " Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light ; But, oh, she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight!"... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 422 Seiten
...active movements of the feet, which Sir John Suckling has imitated in his ballad of the Wedding : " Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light ; But, oh, she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight!"... | |
 | 1856 - 226 Seiten
...basket." Punch has a faint recollection of a couplet by Sir John Suckling, somewhat to this effect : • ' Her feet, beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out." And the raven's plumage, the rosebuds, the ivory, the liquid eyes, and the veiling mists, are — "... | |
 | M E. Hammond - 1858 - 352 Seiten
...for the graceful, gliding step of the polite world; but the twinkling feet " Like little mice crept in and out, As if they fear'd the light ; But, oh...No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight." Mr. Dudley may be excused if he preferred the bounding step (which defied both dignity and elegance)... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 Seiten
...serendipity. Sometimes the words are sheer beauty; for example: Liquid lapse of murmuring streams. JOHN MILTON Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out. SIR JOHN SUCKLING When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The gods that wanton in... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - 1996 - 690 Seiten
...Upon a Wedding" exhibits Suckling's use of the rustic perspective in the poem's most famous lines: Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light. The vivid image of the dainty feet in their delicate movement offers light, humorous... | |
 | Jean C. Cooper - 1996 - 308 Seiten
...other churches could be reached. It was formerly a common belief that the sun danced on Easter Oay. But oh. she dances such a way. No sun upon an Easter day is half so fine a sighC SIH JOHN SL'CHLINC: Ballad upon a Wedding Sir Thomas Browne combats the superstition: We sball... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 Seiten
...herself she will not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her! 4098 'A Ballad upon a Wedding' Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light. 4099 'Against Fruition' Women enjoyed (whatsoe'er before they've been) Are like romances... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 Seiten
...herself she will not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her! 1 1270 :-! Ballad upon a Wedding' the objects for which government ought to be established are answered. 5028 feared the light. 11271 'Against Fruition Women enjoyed (whatsoe'er before they've been) Are like romances... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - 2000 - 324 Seiten
...daring to quote it because under our modern conditions it requires an effort to realise the picture: Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light. And oh I she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
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Her finger was so small, the ring Would not stay on which they did bring, It was too wide a peck : And to say truth, for out it must, ' It look'd like the great collar, just, About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice... 
