 | Geography - 1867 - 878 pages
...say truth (for out it must), It looked like the great collar (just) About our young colt's ucck. ' 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... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1878 - 976 pages
...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 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... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...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 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... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...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 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1887 - 616 pages
...Margaret Howard, daughter of the first Earl of Suffolk, has one verse which has been often iiuoted :— ‘Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light; But oh! she danc¿s such a way, No sun upon an Eastern day Is half so... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poetry - 1810 - 808 pages
...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 in and out, As if they fear'd tht light: Rut oh ! she daucc$ sm:ha way ! No sun upon an Kaster day Is half so fine... | |
 | Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1810 - 278 pages
...rather prior to Herrick, being born twenty-two years before him, and dying at an early period of life: Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light: &c. CLXV. UPON HIS GREY HAIRS, FLV me not, though I be grey> Lady, this... | |
 | Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1810 - 280 pages
...rather prior to Herrick, being born twenty-two years before him, and dying at an early period of life: Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light: &c. SIR J. SUCKLING'S Balladm a Wedding, CLXV. UPON HIS GREY HAIRS. FLV... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 474 pages
...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 in and out, As if they fear'd the light: But oh ! she dances such a wayNo sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1819 - 380 pages
...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 fear'd the light." As for those, who, with bad shapes, make aij useless display of their... | |
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