| William Goodman - 1843 - 342 страници
...walks, ornamented with shrubs and flowers, are beautifully described in a stanza in Gray's Elegy. " Here scattered oft the earliest of the year — By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The red-breast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." Gardens... | |
| John Holland - 1843 - 402 страници
...tablet, was painted the following stanza from the early editions of Gray's 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 here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." This... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 страници
...— " * Here scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By handi unseen, are showers of violets found ; The red-breast loves to build and warble here. And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' As fine a stanza as any in his elegy. I wonder that he could have the heart to omit it.9 " Last night... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 780 страници
...oft, the earlietl of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of riolets found ; The red-bre&it lores to build and warble here. And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' As fine a stanza as any in his elegy. I wonder that he could have the heart to omit it. •• Last... | |
| William Goodman - 1845 - 340 страници
...walks, ornamented with shrubs and flowers, are beautifully described in a stanza in Gray's Elegy. " Here scattered oft the earliest of the year — By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The red-breast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." Gardens... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 страници
...read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. [" There scattered3 oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; 1 For thee, Sfc. — ie as to thee. The remainder of the poem refers to the character and circumstances... | |
| William Cartwright Newsam - 1845 - 264 страници
...tablet, was painted the following stanza from the early editions of Gray's Elegy : — " Here soatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found, The red-breast loves to build and warble here, And little> footsteps lightly print the ground." This... | |
| 1846 - 436 страници
...(for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. 130 YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND. here 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."^.... | |
| Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1846 - 700 страници
...branches of the overhanging trees, as the night wind sighs among them, sing his lullaby. " There gather'd oft the earliest of the year. By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The red,breast loves to build and warble there. And little footsteps lightly print the ground." THE... | |
| Edward Jesse - 1847 - 430 страници
...parenthesis at the end of the poem before the epitaph, but it is well worthy of insertion. 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. This... | |
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