 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 Miscellaneous Works - Page 63by William Hazlitt - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...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...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 R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe - Literature - 1851 - 420 pages
...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 sight. Her checks so rare... | |
 | Literature - 1851 - 682 pages
...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 continually before... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Astronomical observatories - 1851 - 458 pages
...old superstition of the English peasantry, namely, that on Easter morning the sun always dances :—- 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 - English poetry - 1851 - 282 pages
...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... | |
 | American literature - 1852 - 448 pages
...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.' The gracefulness of... | |
 | Arts - 1853 - 390 pages
...coming out of church ? Can we forget Sir John Suckling's beautiful lines in his ballad upon a weddiug? 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 Euster day Is kalf so fine a sight. * * * » * Now,... | |
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