 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 páginas
...equal to the pictures of The following well-known stanza has, perhaps, never been excelled Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fcar'd the light; But oh! she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1851 - 288 páginas
...one, that the sun danced on Easter-day. Suckling alludes to it in his famous ballad:— " 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."... | |
 | Passion - 1853 - 326 páginas
...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." Charles turned... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 páginas
...wrong appear, Just as they do her liv'ry wear. EutU ,\ DANCE. DANGEE. 227 DANCE. HER feet beneath lier 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. Suckling. Lovest... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 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.... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1854 - 268 páginas
...tender, witty, and ludicrous ; jostling, pious John Selden, with his mouth full of aphorisms. '' Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light," sings Sir John ; and his neighbors, lay and clerical, respond — " I can love both fair and brown... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 páginas
...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. * • * • * Her... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1854 - 746 páginas
...that'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 » way — No sun, upon un Eastern day, Is half so line a sight! 'Her checks... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1854 - 690 páginas
...Suckling has an incomparable image, on a lady dancing— Her feet beneath the petticoat, /.'/.•< little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light— Herrick has it thus— lie r pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out; a most singular parallel... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1855 - 552 páginas
...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. He would have kissed... | |
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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... 
