 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.  Once a Week - Página 751871Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1853 - 748 páginas
...simile of the "little mice," what is the meaning of the allusion to the Easterday sun ? — " But oh ! she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight ! " CUTHBEBT BEDE, BA [It was formerly a common belief that the sun danced on Easter-day : see Brand's... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 páginas
...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 - 1854 - 746 páginas
...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,...stole in and out, As 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 páginas
...to say truth (for out it must) It lonk'il 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 fine a sight. * • * • * Her cheeks... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1854 - 268 páginas
...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... | |
 | George Wood - 1855 - 412 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1855 - 682 páginas
...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.... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 422 páginas
...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!" The literary faux-pas... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 páginas
...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!" The literary faux-pas... | |
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