 | 1867 - 878 pagina’s
...(for out it must), It looked like the great collar (just) About our young colt's ucck. ' 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." Of all the song-writers... | |
 | 1878 - 970 pagina’s
...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 feared the light: But oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. Her cheeks so... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pagina’s
...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!... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 476 pagina’s
...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!... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1887 - 616 pagina’s
...daughter of the first Earl of Suffolk, has one verse which has been often iiuoted :— ‘Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light; But oh! she danc¿s such a way, No sun upon an Eastern day Is half so fine a sight' It is impossible... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1810 - 278 pagina’s
...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. CLXV. UPON HIS GREY HAIRS, FLV me not, though I be grey> Lady, this I know you'll... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 pagina’s
...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 J. SUCKLING'S Balladm a Wedding, CLXV. UPON HIS GREY HAIRS. FLV me not, though... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 806 pagina’s
...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 tht light: Rut oh ! she daucc$ sm:ha way ! No sun upon an Kaster day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | George Ellis - 1811 - 474 pagina’s
...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 wayNo sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight!... | |
 | 1826 - 890 pagina’s
...consideration of the following lines of Sir John Suckling, and defy him to be of the other side :— Her FFBT 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 halt' so fine a sight ! VARIETIES. A... | |
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beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light." The illustrated edition of " Italy" was, we believe, the first instance in which (since Boydell's time) first class artists were engaged without regard to expense... 
