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. The Quarterly Review - Page 105edited by - 1907Full view - About this book
| William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 pages
...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. Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No daisy makes comparison, (Who sees them is undone) For streaks... | |
| Thomas Byerley - 1823 - 528 pages
...might he fancied to do. An old ballad (1667) alludes -U> this popular notion :— " But Dick, «he dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight !" And in the British Apollo, 1708, one of the songs thus interrogates Phoebus on this subject : — " Old... | |
| Theocritus - 1836 - 450 pages
..." 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 rare a white was on, No daisy makes comparison ; (Who sees them is undone) ; For streaks... | |
| Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1836 - 436 pages
..." 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 rare a white was on, No daisy makes comparison ; (Who sees them is undone) ; For streaks... | |
| Robert Pashley - 1837 - 380 pages
...notion is alluded to in an old ballad quoted by lilt лм>. Popular Antiquities, Vol. ip 13?. But, Dick, she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. On the next page, of the same work, is quoted, from the " British Apollo," Old wives, Phoebus, say,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...— Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light ; ed , L n @@6 ~# ͔C1 ba > 1 -(ӥo ч % L J&s ] 8 ;]9 !* * Пеп-lck, who bad no occasion to steal, has taken this ¡шзс-1 from Suckling, and spoiled... | |
| 1887 - 544 pages
...f«et beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light: Bat 0! she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight" The compiler has also greatly enriched the volume by retaining what is probably the merriest specimen... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 pages
...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 rare a white was on No daisy makes comparison (Who sees them is undone,) For streaks... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...— Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light ; all high thoughts, how soon unsay What feign'd submission swore ! Ease woul eight 1* * 1 1 IT rid.-, who bad no occasion to steal, has taken thii Image from Suckling, and spoiled... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...ÍHer feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light ; j But oh ! she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight 1* * Rerrlck, who bad no occasion to steal, Ьш taken thii Imafe from Buckling, and spoiled it in... | |
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