 | 1852 - 448 Seiten
...for instance, in Suckling's ' Ballad on a Wedding,' is this part of the description of the bride ! ' 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.'... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 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...: But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. * » * Her cheeks so rare a white was on, ' No daisy makes comparison... | |
 | John Brand - 1853 - 580 Seiten
...Ingenious Head Pieces, 1667, I find this popular notion alluded to in an old ballad : — " But Dick, she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight." [Sir Walter Scott introduces a similar image applied to tha t (flection of the moon in the water, —... | |
 | 1853 - 560 Seiten
...: And to say truth (for out it must) It looked 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 feared the light : But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter Day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | Passion - 1853 - 326 Seiten
...had not a voice recalled him to consciousness, by repeating the lively lines of Sir John Suckling. " Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light. And oh ; she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day, Were half so fair a sight."... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 Seiten
...makes things right or wrong appear, Just as they do her liv'ry wear. Butler. DANCE. DANGER. 227 DANCE. HER feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light. And oh! she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter Day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | John Brand - 1853 - 576 Seiten
...Pieces, 1667, I find this popular notion alluded to in an old ballad : — " Bat Dick, nhr dances tuch a way. No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight." [Sir Walter Scott introduces a similar image applied to the idlection of the moon in the water, —... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 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, Ал if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter day Is half... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 Seiten
...: And to say truth (for out it must) It lonk'il 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 feared the light: But oh! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1854 - 746 Seiten
...grape tlmt 's kindly ripe could be So round, so plump, so soft, as she, Nor half so full of juice. ' Her feet, beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light ; But oh ! she dances such ¡t way — No sun, upon an Euslern day, Is hutf so line... | |
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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... 
