 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 páginas
...the 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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 422 páginas
...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!"... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 378 páginas
...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!" The literary fmuc-pas of a once celebrated chemist, by his work... | |
 | 1856 - 226 páginas
...basket." Punch has a faint recollection of a couplet by Sir John Suckling, somewhat to this effect : • ' Her feet, beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out." And the raven's plumage, the rosebuds, the ivory, the liquid eyes, and the veiling mists, are — "... | |
 | M E. Hammond - 1858 - 352 páginas
...for the graceful, gliding step of the polite world; but the twinkling feet " Like little mice crept 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." Mr. Dudley may be excused if he preferred the bounding step (which... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1859 - 476 páginas
...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 illustrated edition of " Italy " was, we believe, the first instance in which... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 470 páginas
...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 illustrated edition of " Italy " was, we believe, the first instance in which... | |
 | George Augustus Sala - 1859 - 452 páginas
...out of church ? Can you forget Sir John Suckling's beautiful lines in his ballad upon a wedding?— 'Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light. And then she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.'... | |
 | George Augustus Sala - 1859 - 436 páginas
...out of church ? Can you forget Sir John Suckling's beautiful lines in his ballad upon a wedding? — 'Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light. And then she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.'... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 1964 - 200 páginas
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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... 
