 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...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. (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God [6]. [6] Of this Elegy... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...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 Collins's" Dirge... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...teacheth charitie. The Muse of Gray, too, his honoured it with » tribute worthy it? tender assiduity : There 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...the ftrst edition of his Elegy written in a Country Church-yard. Here scatter'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. " To build her such a throne ; that art will feel... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1804 - 480 pages
...teacheth charitie. The Muse of Cray, too, has honoured it with a tribute worthy its tender 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... | |
 | Epigrams, Greek - 1806 - 312 pages
...persuaded himself to reject. " 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." Annexed to this custom, it is natural to expect a superstition that attached certain virtues to particular... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...and demand preservation. There scattdr'el 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. 7. There they alike in trembling hope repose. L. 127. IMITATION. paventosa speme. Petrarch. Son. II4.... | |
 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...Criticism chooses to decline the examination, unwilling to shew eagerness to condemn 1 There, scatter^ oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...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... | |
 | Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 236 pages
...introduced into his Elegy : There scatter'd oft, the earliest o£ 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. * grim-grinning king.] Milton, I believe, has been justly and universally considered as unrivalled,... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1810 - 730 pages
...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 ground." Regaining she trace of the conquering Romans, the pedestrian speedily enters the parish of AUiworth,... | |
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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. 
