 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 238 páginas
...published by Mr. Mason, and originally intended by Gray to have been introduced into his Elegy : There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are show'rs of violets found 5 The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. * grim-grinning... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1810 - 730 páginas
...or the monarch to liij|>a!are? Study the poet had tins tomb in view when lie said : "There scJUcr'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are show'rs of vil'ets found j The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 páginas
...beneath yon aged thorn. " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, " By hands unseen, are showers of violets found " The redbreast loves to build and..." And little footsteps lightly print the ground." THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head uponthe lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair... | |
 | 1812 - 760 páginas
...oft, the earliest of the feet, [found ; BjrliamU unsren are showers of violets The re^l)r«a*.t. loycs to build and warble there, • And little footsteps lightly print the ground." GRAY'S ELEGY. Mr. LHJUN, JUtc. 2T, 1811. I HAVE taken the liberty of transmitting fo -you an exact... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 páginas
...(There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God. NOTES. " ' There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' " Ver. 117. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth] So Milton: " How glad would lay me down, As... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 páginas
...this place. The lines however are, in themselves, esquisitely fine, and demand preservation. There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. 7. There they alike in trembling hope repose. L. 127. IMITATION. paventosa speme. Petrarch. Son. 114.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 páginas
...demand preservation : " ' There scatter'd oft, the earliest of ih<> year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' " into the body of the Elegy. It is acknowledged by Mason and others, to be equal to any in the poem... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 páginas
...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...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' " The Editor of the present edition of the Poet, has ventured to recall into the Elegy, one stanza... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 480 páginas
...parenthesis too long :• There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the jear, By hands unseen, are slmw'rs of violets found, The redbreast loves to build and...Elegy in a Church-yard, by Gray, is well known, and justlyadmired by every one who has the least pretensions to taste. But with all its polish, and deep... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 páginas
...demand preservation : " There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." — M. I find the first traces of this beautiful idea in an Epitaph upon Timon in the Anthologia :... | |
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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... 
