 | English poets - 1801 - 488 oldal
...: 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...No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight ! He would have kiss'd her once or twice, But she would not, she was so nice, She would not do 't in... | |
 | 1856 - 634 oldal
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 804 oldal
...: 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. He would have kist... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 oldal
...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 I be grey,... | |
 | 1817 - 524 oldal
...must) It look I like the great collar (just) About our young colts neck. Her feet beneath her peticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But Dick she dances such a way ! No sun. upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. He would have kist... | |
 | Sir John Mennes - 1817 - 568 oldal
...must) It lookt like the great Collar (just) About our young Colts neck. Her feet beneath her peticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But Dick she dances such a way ! No Sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. He would have kist... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 oldal
...: 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...: 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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - 378 oldal
...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 own, I have no excuse... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 oldal
...: 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 the Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No daisie makes comparison... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1820 - 596 oldal
...and profit by the 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 fcar'd the light." As for those, who, with bad shapes, make a useless display of their legs, I must... | |
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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... 
