 | British poets - 1822 - 284 страници
...place. The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely lino, and demand preservation. There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 352 страници
...:—- Here scattered oft tlie loveliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found $ The redbreast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. V. Aristotle was accustomed to say, that melancholy was ever attendant on superior genius; and, the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 страници
...place. The lines, however, are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation : " 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." —... | |
 | Henry Blake - 1825 - 392 страници
...pebbles that can be found on the shore below. You will be romantic, and imagine that Here scatterM oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found, The red-breast loves to build and warble here, And tiny footsteps lightly print the ground. But the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 страници
...The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation : " ' There scatter'd 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.' "... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 страници
...Church-yard. Here scatter'd oft, the loveliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets fouud ; The redbreast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Amid the purple crags of of Borrowdale ; And try like those to pile thy range of rock In rude tumultuous... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 292 страници
...Approach, and read (for thou canst read) the lay 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. THE... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 страници
...place. The lines, however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation. There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; study, and with no other book than an English Testament, such as children carry to the school ; when... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 страници
...pursue the setting sua. found ; s . t In early editions this fine stanza preceded the epitaph : There T0 - o1 %* XD ʈm W. \ tO] <q) j{ b Aw L u :b r 8 O C i!F fouu The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 532 страници
...elegant. The present, at this season, reminds of Gray's stanza omitted from his elegy : ' Here scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The red-breast loves to build and warble bere, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' As... | |
| |
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. 
