 | 1856 - 634 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 802 pages
...It was too wide a peck : And 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...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... | |
 | Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1810 - 280 pages
...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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 524 pages
...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 kist... | |
 | Sir John Mennes - 1817 - 568 pages
...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 kist... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1819 - 378 pages
...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 - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...past (Perchance) as did the maid. The maid (and thereby hangs a tale) For such a maid no Whitson-ale Could ever yet produce : No grape that's kindly ripe...light : But oh ! she dances such a way! No sun upon the Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No daisie makes comparison... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1820 - 596 pages
...and profit by the 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 fcar'd the light." As for those, who, with bad shapes, make a useless display of their legs, I must... | |
 | Great Britain - 1823 - 468 pages
...mistress, I leave the consideration of the following lines, and defy him to be of the other side : — • 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 MI fine a sight.... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...past (Perchance) as did the maid. The maid (and thereby hangs a tale) For such a maid no Whitson-ale Could ever yet produce : No grape that's kindly ripe...light : But oh ! she dances such a way! No sun upon the Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No daisie makes comparison... | |
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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. 
