 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...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 vermin in thy hail, ; j But oh ! she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight 1* * Rerrlck,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...And, to «ay truth (for out it must), It look'd like the great collar (just) About our young colt's lso of the whole Iliad. fcar'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so âne a sight.... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...And 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...light ; But oh! she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No daisy makes comparison; Who... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...to the pictures of Chaucer. The following well-known stanza has, perhaps, never been excelled : — Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice,...; But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. This ' Ballad,' and the fine lines on Detraction which follow it,... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Astronomical observatories - 1851 - 458 pages
...old superstition of the English peasantry, namely, that on Easter morning the sun always dances :—- Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice,...light: But, oh! she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight The book in the picture before us, being thus selected, affords... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe - Literature - 1851 - 420 pages
...graрe that 'e kindly ripe could he So round, sо plump, sо sоп at ehe, Nor half so fulFot' juice. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light ; But 0)' ! ehe dances such u way — No sun upon an Kaster day Is half so fine a... | |
 | Literature - 1851 - 682 pages
...and prettiest similes in poetry, where Sir John Suckling, in describing a celebrated beauty, says, " Her feet, beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light." Now, would not these little feet rather lose in attraction on the whole by being... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1851 - 282 pages
...and charming specimens in the language. They glance like twinkles in the eye, or cherries bedewed • Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if theyfear'd the light; But oh ! she dances such a way ! JVo sun upon an Easter day, Is half so fine... | |
 | 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...they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a wav ! No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. It is very daring, and has a sort of playful... | |
 | Arts - 1853 - 390 pages
...coming out of church ? Can we forget Sir John Suckling's beautiful lines in his ballad upon a weddiug? Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light. And then she dances such a way, No sun upon an Euster day Is kalf so fine a sight.... | |
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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 look'd like the great collar, just, About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice... 
