 | George Wood - 1855 - 412 páginas
...Ballad for a Wedding," has thus described what we have attempted to suggest to our readers : " Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light. But, 0 ! she dunces such a way, No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight." was a daintiness... | |
 | 1855 - 714 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.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. SIR JOHN SUCKLING. 1608—1644. O,za 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. Her lips were red,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 páginas
...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 !" The literary... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 páginas
...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 1" The literary faux-pas... | |
 | 1855 - 682 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 f'car'd the light ; But, oh, she dances such a way! No euu upon an Easter day, Is half so fine a eight.... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 494 páginas
...(barring nudity and immobility) they might have realised the tempting vision of Suckling : — " Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and...the first instance in which (since Boydell's time) firstclass artists were engaged without regard to expense for such a purpose. It was speedily followed... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 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 foar'd the light; But oh! she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1858 - 442 páginas
...immortal feet of which, more than two hundred years ago, Sir John Suckling said so archly that they ' Like little mice stole in and out As if they feared the light.' ruffled by the wind. Her eyes were neither blue nor brown—perhaps a mingling [of both. They were... | |
 | Max Ferrer - 1859 - 374 páginas
...deeply engrossed in conversation with the calm, beautiful companion by her side. CHAPTER III. 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 SDCKLING.... | |
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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... 
