| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 Seiten
...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 - 1850 - 710 Seiten
...to «ay truth (for out it must), It look'd like the great collar (just) About our young colt's neck. 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.... | |
| William Henry Smyth - 1851 - 458 Seiten
...old superstition of the English peasantry, namely, that on Easter morning the sun always dances :—- Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice,...No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight The book in the picture before us, being thus selected, affords a good indication of sound judgment,... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 Seiten
...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...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 sees them is undone; For streaks... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 Seiten
...to the pictures of Chaucer. The following well-known stanza has, perhaps, never been excelled : — Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice,...No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. This ' Ballad,' and the fine lines on Detraction which follow it, are the only poems that our space... | |
| 1851 - 682 Seiten
...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... | |
| George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe - 1851 - 420 Seiten
...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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1851 - 282 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1852 - 572 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1853 - 390 Seiten
...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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