 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...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 illustrated edition of " Italy " was, we believe, the first instance in which... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...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 illustrated edition of " Italy " was, we believe, the first instance in which... | |
 | Max Ferrer - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 374
...Harry is deeply engrossed in conversation with the calm, beautiful companion by her side. CHAPTER III. 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!... | |
 | George Augustus Sala - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...out of church ? Can you forget Sir John Suckling's beautiful lines in his ballad upon a wedding?— '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 Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.'... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - عدد الصفحات: 180
...serendipity. Sometimes the words are sheer beauty; for example: Liquid lapse of murmuring streams. JOHN MILTON Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out. SIR JOHN SUCKLING When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The gods that wanton in... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 690
...Upon a Wedding" exhibits Suckling's use of the rustic perspective in the poem's most famous lines: Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light. The vivid image of the dainty feet in their delicate movement offers light, humorous... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 686
...herself she will not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her! 1 1270 :-! Ballad upon a Wedding' the objects for which government ought to be established are answered. 5028 feared the light. 11271 'Against Fruition Women enjoyed (whatsoe'er before they've been) Are like romances... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...herself she will not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her! 4098 'A Ballad upon a Wedding' Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light. 4099 'Against Fruition' Women enjoyed (whatsoe'er before they've been) Are like romances... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...daring to quote it because under our modern conditions it requires an effort to realise the picture: Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light. And oh I she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.... | |
 | Bill Moore, David Booth - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 154
...right picture — when it is so cold the snow makes a creaking, crinching sound, as you walk over it. Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out. Sir John Suckling It is a miracle that the pictures created in words by poets seem so vivid and real.... | |
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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... 
