 | Universalism - 1852 - 572 pages
...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 in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a wav ! No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...makes things right or wrong appear, Just as they do her liv'ry wear. Butler. DANCE. DANGER. 227 DANCE. HER feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light. And oh! she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter Day Is half so fine a sight. Suckling. Lovest... | |
 | Passion - 1853 - 326 pages
...had not a voice recalled him to consciousness, by repeating the lively lines of Sir John Suckling. " Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light. And oh ; she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day, Were half so fair a sight." Charles turned... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 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, Ал if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter day Is half... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1854 - 746 pages
...grape tlmt 's kindly ripe could be So round, so plump, so soft, as she, Nor half so full of juice. ' Her feet, beneath her petticoat, Like little mice,...if they feared the light ; But oh ! she dances such ¡t way — No sun, upon an Euslern day, Is hutf so line д sight! 'Her cheeks so rare a white was... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - American literature - 1854 - 268 pages
...gay, tender, witty, and ludicrous ; jostling, pious John Selden, with his mouth full of aphorisms. '' Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light," sings Sir John ; and his neighbors, lay and clerical, respond — " I can love both fair and brown... | |
 | English literature - 1854 - 630 pages
...bride coming out of church 1 Can you forget Sir John Suckling's beautiful lines in hk ballad upon a wedding ? — "Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and ont, As if they feared the light. And then she dances such a wty, No sun upon an Easier-day Is half... | |
 | George Wood - Allegories - 1855 - 412 pages
...his " Ballad for a Wedding," has thus described what we have attempted to suggest to our readers : " Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light. But, 0 ! she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight." was a daintiness of... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 682 pages
...to sav 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 f'car'd the light ; But, oh, she dances such a way! No euu upon an Easter day, Is half so fine a eight.... | |
 | Charles Wainwright March - Madeira (Madeira Islands) - 1856 - 470 pages
...looking radiant with expectation. Her mantilla, fan and gloves were all perfect, and her tiny feet, " like little mice, stole in and out, as if they feared the light." Her eyelashes, long and heavy, half-concealed the eyes, making them appear like Cupid's artillery in... | |
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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. 
