 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...liveliness equal to the pictures of Chaucer. One well-known verse has never been excelled — ÍHer ing. Pri. Home, and be humble ; study to retrench ; Discharge the lazy vermin in thy hail, ; j But oh ! she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight 1* * Rerrlck,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 páginas
...to «ay truth (for out it must), It look'd like the great collar (just) About our young colt's neck. the whole Iliad. fcar'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so âne a sight.... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1851 - 458 páginas
...old superstition of the English peasantry, namely, that on Easter morning the sun always dances :—- Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice,...No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight The book in the picture before us, being thus selected, affords a good indication of sound judgment,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 páginas
...to the pictures of Chaucer. The following well-known stanza has, perhaps, never been excelled : — Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice,...No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. This ' Ballad,' and the fine lines on Detraction which follow it, are the only poems that our space... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 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...No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No daisy makes comparison; Who sees them is undone; For streaks... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe - 1851 - 420 páginas
...graрe that 'e kindly ripe could he So round, sо plump, sо sоп at ehe, Nor half so fulFot' juice. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light ; But 0)' ! ehe dances such u way — No sun upon an Kaster day Is half so fine a... | |
 | 1851 - 682 páginas
...and 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1851 - 282 páginas
...and charming specimens in the language. They glance like twinkles in the eye, or cherries bedewed • Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if theyfear'd the light; But oh ! she dances such a way ! JVo sun upon an Easter day, Is half so fine... | |
 | 1852 - 572 páginas
...Thy presence near. E. LOUISA MATHER. SIR JOHN SUCKLING, in his "Billad on a Wedding," thus sings : Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole...they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a wav ! No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. It is very daring, and has a sort of playful... | |
 | 1852 - 448 páginas
...for instance, in Suckling's ' Ballad on a Wedding,' is this part of the description of the bride ! ' 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.'... | |
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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... 
