 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1820 - 596 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Byerley - 1823 - 528 páginas
...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 : —... | |
 | 1823 - 468 páginas
...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.... | |
 | 1824 - 408 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...to say truth (for out it must) It look'd like the great collar (just) About our young colt's neck. itt fear' d the light: But oh 1 she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter Day, Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | 1824 - 408 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...the great eollar (just) About our young eolt's neek. Her feet beneath her pettieoat, Like little miee And in luxurious eities, where the noise Of riot aseends abo danees sueh a way ! No sun upon an Easter Day, Is half so fine a sight. He wou'd have kiss'd her onee... | |
 | 1826 - 890 páginas
...consideration of the following lines of Sir John Suckling, 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 hall so fine л sight... | |
 | 1828 - 454 páginas
...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...: 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 wou'd not, she... | |
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Her finger was so small, the ring Would not stay on which they did bring, It was too wide a peck : And 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... 
