 | 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 can love both... | |
 | 1855 - 682 Seiten
...: And 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.... | |
 | 1855 - 684 Seiten
...colt's nuck. "Her foot beneath her petticoat, Ijikc little mice, stole m and out, As if they fenr'd tho light ; But, oh, she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter day, Is half to fine a sight. " Her checks so rare a white was on, No dnisy makes comparison, (Who sees them is... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 Seiten
...feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and ont As if they feared the light; Bat ah ! she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a eight. The poet had before told us that, Her finger was so small, the ring Would not stay on that they... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1855 - 552 Seiten
...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, ls half so fine a sight. He would have kissed her once or twice, But she would not, she was so nice,... | |
 | 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 a sight."... | |
 | 1855 - 624 Seiten
...feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in nnd out As if they feared the light ; Rut ah ! she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine n sight." The poet had before told us that, Her finger was so small, the ring Would not stay on that... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 378 Seiten
...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 fmuc-pas of a once celebrated chemist, by his work on " Chemical Tests," is known to the... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...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 - 410 Seiten
...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... | |
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Her finger was so small, the ring Would not stay on which they did bring, It was too wide a peck : And 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... 
