 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.  The Album - Sivu 2981823Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1841 - 500 sivua
...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...dances such a way No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. He would have kissed her once or twice, But she would not, she was so nice, She would... | |
 | 1841 - 558 sivua
...heat, approached him with her tread. How prettily her feet, as that saucy fellow Suckling has it, " Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light." Nothing in the wide world, Matemon, arrests my attention quicker than Cinderella's slipper when it... | |
 | Frederick William Thomas - 1841 - 176 sivua
...approached him with her tread. How prettily her feet, as that saucy fellow Suckling has it, '' lake little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light.'' first swells to the wave, and her neck is worthy of it, and delicately fair. As the southern sun has... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1842 - 484 sivua
...spoiling what he takes. Suckling liai an incomparable image on a lady dancing. Her feet beneath the petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light— Herrick has it thus : Her pretty feet, life snails, did creep A little out ; A most singular parallel... | |
 | John Elliot Bingham - 1843 - 910 sivua
...Range of Thermometer — Squadron sail from Starboard Jack — Fishing-boats — Arrival at Toong-koo. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light. — SUCKLING. THE burning of the archives, alluded to in the previous Chapter, excited... | |
 | 1847 - 640 sivua
...therefore may work wonders in combination. Take a stanza and a half from Suckling's " Bride :" — " Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice,...dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter Day Is half so fine a sight. Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compared to that was next her chin Some bee had... | |
 | 1874 - 898 sivua
...poems in the language. How these stanzas make us realize the charming being whom he describes ! — Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice,...stole in and out, As if they feared the light : But O ! she dances such a way 1 No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. Her cheeks, so rare... | |
 | 1887 - 544 sivua
...is this verse quoted from it by persons who know little or nothing of tlie author, — " Her f«et beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light: Bat 0! she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight" The compiler has also... | |
 | 1843 - 434 sivua
...see this supposed \>tanomenon. Suckling, in his ballad on a wedding, s!udes to it — " Hut, Dick, she dances such a way. No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight." And Sir Thomas Browne, in denying it in his "Trip 1 .1 ivi .-," uses language which... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 sivua
...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...dances such a way No sun upon an Easter day" Is half so fine a sight. He would have kissed her once or twice, But she would not, she was so nice, She would... | |
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