| English poets - 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...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, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way — No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight... | |
| English poets - 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way — No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight ! He would have kiss'd her once or twice, But she would not, she... | |
| 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...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 edition of ' Italy... | |
| George Ellis - 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...And to say truth, for out it must, It look'd like the great collar, just, About our young cok's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way- — No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...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... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...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, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...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, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way! No sun upon the Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
| 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...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,...light : But oh, she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day Is half MI fine a sight. SIR JOHN SUCKLING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ALBUM. MR. EDITOR, IN the... | |
| Thomas Byerley - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...might he fancied to do. An old ballad (1667) alludes -U> this popular notion :— " But Dick, «he dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight !" And in the British Apollo, 1708, one of the songs thus interrogates Phoebus on this subject : —... | |
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