 | English poets - 1801 - 454 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pàgines
...half so full of juice. 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... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 476 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | 1856 - 634 pàgines
...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 edition of ' Italy... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 474 pàgines
...half so full of juice. 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 cok's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat Like... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 802 pàgines
...It was too wide a peck : 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.... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1817 - 524 pàgines
...Nor half so full of juice. Her finger was so small, the ring Would not stay on 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... | |
 | Sir John Mennes - 1817 - 568 pàgines
...Nor half so full of juice. Her finger was so small, the Ring Would not stay 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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - 378 pàgines
...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... | |
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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. 
