 | 1841 - 558 pages
...heat, approached him with her tread. How prettily her feet, as that saucy fellow Suckling has it, " Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light." Nothing in the wide world, Matemon, arrests my attention quicker than Cinderella's slipper when it... | |
 | Frederick William Thomas - 1841 - 176 pages
...approached him with her tread. How prettily her feet, as that saucy fellow Suckling has it, '' lake little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light.'' first swells to the wave, and her neck is worthy of it, and delicately fair. As the southern sun has... | |
 | Henry Hallam - European literature - 1842 - 484 pages
...spoiling what he takes. Suckling liai an incomparable image on a lady dancing. Her feet beneath the petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light— Herrick has it thus : Her pretty feet, life snails, did creep A little out ; A most singular parallel... | |
 | John Elliot Bingham - China - 1843 - 910 pages
...Range of Thermometer — Squadron sail from Starboard Jack — Fishing-boats — Arrival at Toong-koo. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light. — SUCKLING. THE burning of the archives, alluded to in the previous Chapter, excited... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 898 pages
...poems in the language. How these stanzas make us realize the charming being whom he describes ! — Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice,...stole in and out, As if they feared the light : But O ! she dances such a way 1 No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. Her cheeks, so rare... | |
 | Universalism - 1887 - 544 pages
...is this verse quoted from it by persons who know little or nothing of tlie author, — " Her f«et beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light: Bat 0! she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight" The compiler has also... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...to say truth, for out it must, It looked like the great collar, just, About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice,...in and out, As if they feared the light : But, oh I she dances such a way — No sun upon an Easter day la half BO fine a sight ! Her cheeks so rare... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...and charming specimens in the language. They glance like twinkles of the eye, or cherries bedewed : 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 - 1845 - 280 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 they fear ' d the light; But oh ! she dances such a way! JVo sun upon an Easter day, Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 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 they fear'd the light ; But oh ! she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter day, Is half so fine a sight.... | |
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Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light ; But, O she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter Day Is half so fine a sight. 
