 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 Seiten
...; 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, 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.... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 Seiten
...be describes with life and playfulness ; as in his ballad on a Wedding, where he says of the bride : 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 sojine a sight.... | |
 | 1846 - 392 Seiten
...recommend gum elastic shoes to young ladies, who perhaps pride themselves upon being like 1er whose " feet beneath her petticoat*, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light" " Little mice," indeed ! Why, a lady's feel, cased in high gum shoes, are as ugly... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 Seiten
...; 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, stole in and out, As \f 'they fear 'd the light ; But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter day Is half so... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...And, to say truth (for out it must), It look'd like the great collar (just) About our young colt's K K{J I No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. » » * Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No... | |
 | 1847 - 610 Seiten
...therefore may work wonders in combination. Take a stanza and a half from Suckling's "Bride :"— " 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 tine a sight.... | |
 | 1847 - 522 Seiten
...however, to advantage here. We cannot omit r f— 'ines from "The Bride," though every one has admired " Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light ; But, oh t she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight."... | |
 | Joseph Sparkes Hall - 1847 - 172 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...And, to say truth (for out it must), It look'd like the great collar (just) About our young colt's o big as a round little worm, Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid oat, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way 1 No sun upon an Kastcr-day Is half... | |
 | 1856 - 604 Seiten
...GEORGE WASHINGTON. Col. John Cropper. TO ZENOVA. SELECTED FROM THE POEMS OF THE LATE HENRT ELLBK. "And oh! she dances such a way No sun upon an Easter day /s half so Jlne a night." SIR JOHN SUCKLING. I hare often stood, fair lady — • Stood to watch thee... | |
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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... 
