 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - 380 páginas
...the exquisite 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 aij useless display of their legs, I must... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 444 páginas
...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.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 páginas
...truth (for out it roust) 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.... | |
 | 1823 - 474 páginas
...I leave the consideration of the following lines, and defy him to be of the other side:— 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. . SIR JOHN SUCKLING.... | |
 | 1824 - 408 páginas
...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 the Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 páginas
...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.... | |
 | 1828 - 482 páginas
...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.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1828 - 460 páginas
...was so small, the ring Wou'd not stay on which they did bring, 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.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 444 páginas
...as many holes in an enemy's battle, as thou hast done in a woman's petticoat ? Shatupeart. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light. SucUing. • It is a great compliment to the sei, that the virtues are generally... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 páginas
...That, walking highways, every shadow moves.— Homer. '{ ur**-~ — 100 *~ ~*; XIV. FEBRUARY. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear' d the light: But oh! she dances snch a way I No Sun upon the Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
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beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light." The illustrated edition of " Italy" was, we believe, the first instance in which (since Boydell's time) first class artists were engaged without regard to expense... 
