 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 884 pages
...His ballad of The, Wrddmrj is still unsurpassed, and one simile in his description of the bride — Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light — las had the honour of being copied by Herrick and Jongreve, SUCTO'RIA, an order of insects, containing... | |
 | Book - English literature - 1868 - 168 pages
...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 fine a sight... | |
 | Henry Morley - Ballads, English - 1868 - 282 pages
...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 fine a sight.... | |
 | Sir Jonah Barrington - Ireland - 1869 - 502 pages
...I have provided none better. One of the prettiest similes in the world is Sir John Suckling's, from The Wedding — " Her feet beneath her petticoat,...mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light." " La, what is this like ?" asked Bessy Martin, on being handed a bunch of lavender, cut very short.... | |
 | Bill Moore - Cooking - 1987 - 180 pages
...serendipity. Sometimes the words are sheer beauty; for example: Liquid lapse of murmuring streams. JOHN MILTON Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out. SIR JOHN SUCKLING When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The gods that wanton in... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - English wit and humor - 1996 - 690 pages
...Upon a Wedding" exhibits Suckling's use of the rustic perspective in the poem's most famous lines: Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light. The vivid image of the dainty feet in their delicate movement offers light, humorous criticism of the... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...'Song' If of herself she will not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her! 4098 'A Ballad upon a Wedding' Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little...mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light. 4099 'Against Fruition' Women enjoyed (whatsoe'er before they've been) Are like romances read, or sights... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...If of herself she will not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her! 1 1270 :-! Ballad upon a shed, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered. 5028 11271 'Against Fruition Women enjoyed (whatsoe'er before they've been) Are like romances read, or sights... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - Philosophy - 2000 - 324 pages
...daring to quote it because under our modern conditions it requires an effort to realise the picture: Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light. And oh I she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. Miss Austen's novels... | |
 | Theocritus Junior - 2003 - 281 pages
...more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art, That strike my eyes, but not my heart." BEN JONSON. Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, But, oh! she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. " Her cheek, so... | |
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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. 
