 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 424 страници
...array by the friendly zeal of Mr. Prior in his valuable biography of Goldsmith, vol. ii. p. 479. ** "Here scattered oft, the earliest 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." "I... | |
 | 1854 - 456 страници
...The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne ; " 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 618 страници
...exquisite lines which in a moment of unpardonable hypercriticism, he rejected from his elegy. * There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found : The Bed-breast loves to build and warble near, And littie footsteps lightiy print the ground.' And... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 страници
...some of the early editions, but afterwards omitted as too long a parenthesis for the place : f ' There scattered 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. Page... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 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; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. » Page... | |
 | 1854 - 544 страници
...most familiar scene), too common and undignified for the taste of that day : — • There seatter'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.' But... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 страници
...Churehyard. Here seatter'd oft, the 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 Gray's Ckureuyar* 18 Perhaps in this negleeted spot ¡t laid Some heart onee pregnant with eelestial... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 страници
...The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne ; " 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... | |
 | 1855 - 458 страници
...The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne ; " 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 Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1855 - 584 страници
...The present, at flus season, reminds one 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 here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' •As... | |
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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. 
