 | Joseph Ritson - 1790 - 434 pages
...It was too wide a peck : And to fay truth (for out it muft) 40 It lookt like the great collar (juft) About our young colts neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat. Like little mice ftole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : 45 But, oh ! (he dances fuch a way, No fun upon an... | |
 | 1856 - 634 pages
...and (barring nudity and immobility) they might have realised the tempting vision of Suckling : — ' Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light.* * The Dream, and other Poems. By the Honourable Mrs. Norton. p. 180. The illustrated... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 802 pages
...: And to say truth (for out it must) It look'd like the great collar (jnst) 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: Bnt oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. He would have kist... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 pages
...rather prior to Herrick, being born twenty-two years before him, and dying at an early period of life : Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : &c. SIR ]. SUCKLING'S Balladon a Wedding, CLXV. UPON HIS GREY HAIRS. ' me not, though I be grey,... | |
 | 1817 - 524 pages
...which he did bring, It was too wide a peck : And to say truth (for out it must) It look I like the great collar (just) About our young colts neck. Her feet beneath her peticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But Dick she dances such... | |
 | Sir John Mennes - 1817 - 568 pages
...on which he did bring, It was too wide a peck : And to say truth (for out it must) It lookt like the great Collar (just) About our young Colts neck. Her feet beneath her peticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But Dick she dances such... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - 378 pages
...exquisite description of the Bride, in Sir John Suckling's poem of the Wedding; • . •• . - :.) " Her feet beneath her petticoat, : Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light." As for those, who, with bad shapes, make an useless display of their legs, I must own, I have no excuse... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1820 - 596 pages
...and profit by the exquisite description of the Bride; in Sir John Suckling's poem of the Wedding : " Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fcar'd the light." As for those, who, with bad shapes, make a useless display of their legs, I must... | |
 | 1823 - 468 pages
...mistress, I leave the consideration of the following lines, and defy him to be of the other side : — • 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 MI fine a sight.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...: And to say truth (for out it must) It look'd like the great collar (just) About our young colt's {Ҁݩ { % & ߲ M y U B;Q [, U D ; BA? + 3 >뵲o]A * D fear' d the light: But oh 1 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, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. 
