 | 1853 - 390 Seiten
...coming out of church ? Can we forget Sir John Suckling's beautiful lines in his ballad upon a weddiug? Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light. And then she dances such a way, No sun upon an Euster day Is kalf so fine... | |
 | Passion - 1853 - 326 Seiten
...had not a 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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 Seiten
...makes things right or wrong appear, Just as they do her liv'ry wear. Butler. DANCE. DANGER. 227 DANCE. 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 Is half so fine... | |
 | 1853 - 560 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1854 - 268 Seiten
...gay, 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1854 - 746 Seiten
...grape tlmt '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 ¡t way — No sun, upon an Euslern day, Is... | |
 | 1855 - 682 Seiten
...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... | |
 | George Wood - 1855 - 412 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 422 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
