 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 Agriculturist - Page 2641846Full view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 pages
...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.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...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 ! JYo sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 pages
...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 ! JVo sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 pages
...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 \f 'they fear 'd the light ; But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter day Is half so... | |
 | Joseph Sparkes Hall - 1847 - 172 pages
...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 ! " Very beautiful... | |
 | 1847 - 522 pages
...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." And again, "... | |
 | 1847 - 610 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. • « » • Her... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...say truth (for out it must), It look'd like the great collar (just) About our young colt's neck. Her fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way I No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1847 - 490 pages
...spoiling what he takes. Suckling has an incomparable image on a lady dancing. Her feet beneath the petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the tight— Herrick has it thus : Her pretty feet, like snailt, did creep A little out ; A most singular... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1851 - 682 pages
...prettiest similes in poetry, where Sir John Suckling, in describing a celebrated beauty, says, " Her feet, beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light." Now, would not these little feet rather lose in attraction on the whole by being continually before... | |
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