Her finger was so small, the ring Would not stay on which they did bring, It was too wide a peck; And 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 stole... Putnam's Monthly - Страница 1771855Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| 1846 - 392 страници
...recommend gum elastic shoes to young ladies, who perhaps pride themselves upon being like 1er whose " feet beneath her petticoat*, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light" " Little mice," indeed ! Why, a lady's feel, cased in high gum shoes, are as ugly... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 страници
...was so small, the ring Would not stay on which they did bring ; It was too wide a peck : And, to say fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way I No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 страници
...was so small, the ring Would not stay on which they did bring ; It was too wide a peck : And, to say cricket's bone ; the lash, of film ; Her wagoner,...little worm, Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid oat, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way 1 No sun upon an Kastcr-day Is half... | |
| 1847 - 610 страници
...therefore may work wonders in combination. Take a stanza and a half from Suckling's "Bride :"— " 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 tine a sight.... | |
| Joseph Sparkes Hall - 1847 - 172 страници
...active movements of the feet, which Sir John Suckling has imitated in his Ballad of the Wedding:— " 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... | |
| 1847 - 522 страници
...however, to advantage here. We cannot omit r f— 'ines from "The Bride," though every one has admired " 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."... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 страници
...liveliness equal to the pictures of Chaucer. One well-known verse has never been excelled — ÍHer ing. Pri. Home, and be humble ; study to retrench ; Discharge the lazy ver fear'd the light ; j But oh ! she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 страници
...was so small, the ring Would not stay on which they did bring | It was too wide a peck : And, to «ay ceived, that, in 1675, he sent forth a translation...remainder of that poem, and also of the whole Iliad. sun upon an Easter-day Is half so âne a sight. * « * Her cheek« so rare a white was on, No daisy... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 страници
...was so small, the ring Would not 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...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 - 1851 - 594 страници
...finger was so small, the ring Would not 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...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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