| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 410 pages
...George upon the Green, Or Vincent of the Crown. THE BRIDE. Her finger was so small, the ring Wou'd not stay on, which they did bring ; It was too wide,...petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As \f 'they fear 'd the light ; But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter day Is half so... | |
| Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...be describes with life and playfulness ; as in his ballad on a Wedding, where he says of the bride : 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 sojine a sight.... | |
| Agriculture - 1846 - 392 pages
...recommend gum elastic shoes to young ladies, who perhaps pride themselves upon being like 1er whose " feet beneath her petticoat*, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light" " Little mice," indeed ! Why, a lady's feel, cased in high gum shoes, are as ugly... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...a* did the maid. The maid, and thereby hangs a tale, For euch a maid no Whitaun-aleA Could етег @uH B0u I No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. » » * Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No... | |
| 1847 - 526 pages
...however, to advantage here. We cannot omit r f— 'ines from "The Bride," though every one has admired " Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light ; But, oh t she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight."... | |
| Joseph Sparkes Hall - Footwear - 1847 - 172 pages
...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... | |
| American periodicals - 1847 - 608 pages
...therefore may work wonders in combination. Take a stanza and a half from Suckling's "Bride :"— " 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 tine a sight.... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...(just) About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and oat, chariot is an empty hazel-nut. Made by the joiner squirrel, 1 No sun upon an Kastcr-day Is half so fine a sight. * * • Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 710 pages
...liveliness equal to the pictures of Chaucer. One well-known verse has never been excelled — ÍHer ing. Pri. Home, and be humble ; study to retrench ; Discharge the lazy vermin in thy hail, ; j But oh ! she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight 1* * Rerrlck,... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...was so small, the ring Would not stay on which they did bring | It was too wide a peck : And, to «ay ceived, that, in 1675, he sent forth a translation...remainder of that poem, and also of the whole Iliad. fcar'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so âne a sight.... | |
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