 | Nathan Drake - 1800 - 482 страници
...The Muse of Gray, too, his honoured it with » tribute worthy it? tender assiduity : There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found : The Xed-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. And lastly... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 страници
...the ftrst edition of his Elegy written in a Country Church-yard. Here scatter'd oft, the loveliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets...here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. " To build her such a throne ; that art will feel " How vain her best pretensions. Trace her march... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1804 - 480 страници
...The Muse of Cray, too, has honoured it with a tribute worthy its tender assiduity : There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found i The Red-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. And... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 страници
...Criticism chooses to decline the examination, unwilling to shew eagerness to condemn 1 There, scatter^ oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...violets found ; The Red-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. him, who has already condemned himself. For the... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 516 страници
...the first edition of his Elegy written in a country church-yard. Here scatter'd oft, the loveliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets...here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Note XVIII. Verse 122. Let England prize this daughter of the East Our common laurel was first brought... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 524 страници
...the first edition of his Elegy written in a country church-yard. Here scatter'd oft, the loveliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets...here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Note XVIII. Verse 122. Let England prize this daughter of the East Our common laurel was first brought... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 страници
...Approach and read (forthou canst read) the lay Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, " By hands...violets found " The redbreast loves to build and warble there, " And little footsteps lightly print the ground." THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head uponthe lap... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 страници
...the woodlark pip'd her farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun : — " And, " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...violets found : The redbreast loves to build, and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground ! — " though almost unobjectionable* in themselves,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 страници
...place. The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation : " ' There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' " The Editor of the present edition of the Poet,... | |
 | 1821 - 444 страници
...red-breast*, wren3, water-wagtail, 1 See TT for 1814, p. 304 ; and for 1817, p. 125. 1 Here scattered oft the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The red-breast loves to haunt and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. GRAY. See likewise TT for 1818,... | |
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Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." ["There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. 
