 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 páginas
...this place. The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation. There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God [6]. [6] Of this Elegy... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 páginas
...this place. The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation. There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. To some readers they may appear to be a pretty close imitation of the following in Collins's" Dirge... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1800 - 482 páginas
...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 Mr. Hole, in his epic romance of Arthur, or the Northern Enchantment, is not excelled by... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 páginas
...and demand preservation. There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are show 'rs of violets found ? The redbreast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. To some readers they may appear to be a pretty close imitation of the following in Colliiis's " Dirge... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1804 - 480 páginas
...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 lastly Mr. Hole, in his epic romance of Arthur, or the Northern Enchantment, is not excelled by... | |
 | 1806 - 312 páginas
...rustic. Few stanzas in his elegy will vie with that which he has persuaded himself to reject. " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." Annexed to this custom, it is natural to expect a superstition that attached certain virtues to particular... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 páginas
...pluco. The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation. There scattdr'el oft, the earliest of the year, "By hands unseen are...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. 7. There they alike in trembling hope repose. L. 127. IMITATION. paventosa speme. Petrarch. Son. II4.... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 páginas
...immediately preceding the Epitaph, but being too long a parenthesis, it was afterwards excluded. There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are show'rs of violets found ; ODE TO PITY. [IBID.] O THOU, the friend of man assign'd, With balmy hands his wounds to bind, And... | |
 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 236 páginas
...originally intended by Gray to have been introduced into his Elegy : There scatter'd oft, the earliest o£ the year, By hands unseen are show'rs of violets found...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. * grim-grinning king.] Milton, I believe, has been justly and universally considered as unrivalled,... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 páginas
...eagerness to condemn 1 There, scatter^ oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The Red-breast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. him, who has already condemned himself. For the discontinuance of it in the after-editions, Mason has... | |
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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... 
