 | Anniversary calendar - 1832
...on their way they went, like those two doves, That, walking highways, every shadow moves.— Homer. 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 Snn upon the Easter-day la half Mi fine a sight. acts. THE feast... | |
 | Court magazine and monthly critic - 1833
...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 feared the light. But oh ! she dances such a way ' No sun npon an Easter day, Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | John Suckling (sir.) - 1836
...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... | |
 | Garland - 1836 - Liczba stron: 14
...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... | |
 | Theocritus, Bion (of Phlossa near Smyrna.), Moschus - 1836 - Liczba stron: 419
...quote a few stanzas from the witty Sir John Suckling's excellent ballad " On a wedding." NOTES. 359 " 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.... | |
 | Theocritus (of Syracuse), Bion (of Smyrna.) - 1836
...tempted to quote a few stanzas from the witty Sir John Suckling's excellent ballad " On a 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.... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1836
...a poet. His Ballad upon a Wedding contains some descriptive passages of unapproached excellence— 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 eaiter day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | John William Carleton
...once more to restore mankind to a practical knowledge of that most delicate simile of Suckling — " Her feet, beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light." To be sure tlio carriage and step of your city dame is not very remarkable for timidity;... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1840
...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 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.... | |
 | 1841
...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 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.... | |
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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. 
