 | English poets - 1801 - Liczba stron: 488
...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, 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 ! He would have... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - Liczba stron: 474
...And to say truth, for out it must, It look'd like the great collar, just, About our young cok'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 ! She would... | |
 | 1856 - Liczba stron: 634
...and (barring nudity and immobility) they might have realised the tempting vision of Suckling : — ' Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light.* * The Dream, and other Poems. By the Honourable Mrs. Norton. p. 180. The illustrated... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1810 - Liczba stron: 280
...rather prior to Herrick, being born twenty-two years before him, and dying at an early period of life : Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : &c. SIR ]. SUCKLING'S Balladon a Wedding, CLXV. UPON HIS GREY HAIRS. ' me not, though I be grey,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Liczba stron: 802
...to say truth (for out it must) It look'd like the great collar (jnst) 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: Bnt oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. He would have kist... | |
 | 1817 - Liczba stron: 524
...must) It look I like the great collar (just) About our young colts neck. Her feet beneath her peticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But Dick she dances such a way ! No sun. upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. He would have... | |
 | Sir John Mennes - 1817 - Liczba stron: 568
...must) It lookt like the great Collar (just) About our young Colts neck. Her feet beneath her peticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But Dick she dances such a way ! No Sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. He would have... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - Liczba stron: 368
...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, 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. Her cheeks so... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - Liczba stron: 378
...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 an useless display of their legs, I must own, I have no excuse... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - Liczba stron: 408
...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, 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. Her cheeks so... | |
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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. 
