 | 1868 - 886 pages
...all posterity. His ballad of The Wedding is still unsurpassed, and one simile in his description of the bride — Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light — has had the honour of being copied by Herrick and Congrevep SUCTO'RIA,... | |
 | Book - 1868 - 168 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1868 - 282 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 1868 - 416 pages
...Suckling's poems a scrap, which he said was very beautiful, but which we thought not at all apropos. 'Twas "Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out As if they feared the light." Yet he is a useful man and speaks beautifully. But he is at the door.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1869 - 630 pages
...prevent discovery. The corresponding passage in the earlier poet is fiir more delicate and graceful : Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, Aa if they fear'd tho light. Since Milton's obligations to the Sad Shepherdess are evident throughout his Comus, it will... | |
 | 1923 - 748 pages
...size or two larger, at any rate, than the bride's in Sir John Suckling's Ballad upon a Wedding: . . . 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... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 pages
...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 - 690 pages
...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,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 pages
...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)... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...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 answe As if they feared the light. 11271 'Against Fruition Women enjoyed (whatsoe'er before they've been)... | |
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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. 
