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" beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light." The illustrated edition of " Italy" was, we believe, the first instance in which (since Boydell's time) first class artists were engaged without regard to expense... "
Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age - Page 165
edited by - 1856
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The Popular Educator, Volumes 5-6; Volume 14

1867 - 878 pages
...(for out it must), It looked like the great collar (just) About our young colt's ucck. ' 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." Of all the song-writers...
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Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle, Volume 245

1878 - 970 pages
...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 feared the light: But oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. Her cheeks so...
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Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which ..., Volume 3

English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...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 fear'd the light: But oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight!...
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Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed an ..., Volume 3

George Ellis - 1803 - 476 pages
...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 fear'd the light: But oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight!...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 164

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1887 - 616 pages
...daughter of the first Earl of Suffolk, has one verse which has been often iiuoted :— ‘Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light; But oh! she danc¿s such a way, No sun upon an Eastern day Is half so fine a sight' It is impossible...
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Select Poems from the Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human and Divine

Robert Herrick - 1810 - 278 pages
...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. CLXV. UPON HIS GREY HAIRS, FLV me not, though I be grey> Lady, this I know you'll...
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Select Poems from the Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human and Divine

Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 pages
...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 J. SUCKLING'S Balladm a Wedding, CLXV. UPON HIS GREY HAIRS. FLV me not, though...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 6

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 806 pages
...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 fear'd tht light: Rut oh ! she daucc$ sm:ha way ! No sun upon an Kaster day Is half so fine a sight....
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Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical ...

George Ellis - 1811 - 474 pages
...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 fear'd the light: But oh ! she dances such a wayNo sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight!...
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Spirit of the English Magazines

1826 - 890 pages
...consideration of the following lines of Sir John Suckling, and defy him to be of the other side :— Her FFBT 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 halt' so fine a sight ! VARIETIES. A...
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