| Thomas Gray - 1859 - 368 páginas
...exquisitely fine, and demand preservation: " ' There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By bands unseen are show'rs of violets found; The redbreast...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' " V. 117. " How glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap." Par. Lost, x. 777. Also Speus. F. Qu.... | |
| Charles Cist - 1859 - 434 páginas
...by a chaste memento, where, 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." The monument now erected is guarded by a tender care, and the highest, holiest feelings of our nature... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 páginas
...preservation."— Mason. " 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." 2 This epitaph has been commented on, and translated into different languages, by various men of eminence,... | |
| John Milton - 1860 - 574 páginas
...long: There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found; Tb> redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. ; Paventuaa spcmo. Petrarch, Son. tTW» lady, the wife of Dr. Clarke, physician at Epsom, oVd April... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 páginas
...seattered oft, the earliest of the year, By bands unseen, are showers of violets found; The redbreast lores to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Gray began the composition of this exquisite pocm in 1742 ; but so carefully did he proceed, that it... | |
| James Thomson - 1861 - 480 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. ON THE SPRING. Lo ! where the rosy-bosom'd hours, Fair Venus' train, appear, Disclose the long-expecting... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 páginas
...preservation."—Mam. «' 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." * ThU epitaph has been commented on, and translated Into different languages, by various men of eminence,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1863 - 304 páginas
...too long a parenthesis : " There scatter'd 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." Gray never produced any lines more exquisitely graceful than these. * Gray hved in great intimacy with... | |
| Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1863 - 178 páginas
...them, sing his lullaby. " There gather'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." * " Jardine's Criminal Tryals. Gunpowder Plot." — An admirable specimen of historic investigation.... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 páginas
...preservation." — \lu*on. " There scntter'd oft, the earliest of the yenr, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and...warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the grounil." * This epitaph his been commented on, and translated Into <liffl.Tt.-nl Innirnajrcs, hyTarlons... | |
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