 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - Liczba stron: 980
...to say 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.... | |
 | George Wood - 1855 - Liczba stron: 412
...his " 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 dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight."... | |
 | 1855 - Liczba stron: 682
...to sav 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.... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - Liczba stron: 384
...active 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!"... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - Liczba stron: 410
...the active 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - Liczba stron: 660
...a lie ; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. SIR JOHN SUCKLING. 1608-1644. 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.... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - Liczba stron: 422
...active 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!"... | |
 | 1856 - Liczba stron: 226
...basket." Punch has a faint recollection of a couplet by Sir John Suckling, somewhat to this effect : • ' Her feet, beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out." And the raven's plumage, the rosebuds, the ivory, the liquid eyes, and the veiling mists, are — "... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1859 - Liczba stron: 476
...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 illustrated edition of " Italy " was, we believe, the first instance in which... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - Liczba stron: 470
...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 illustrated edition of " Italy " was, we believe, the first instance in which... | |
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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. 
