 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 186 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. (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God [6]. [6] Of this Elegy... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 223 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 Collins's" Dirge... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1800
...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 - 207 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
...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 - 233 páginas
...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
...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.... | |
 | Henry Headley - 1810
...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,... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 148 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... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1810
...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... 
