 | Frederick Dinsdale - 1849 - 182 páginas
...annual visit." Thomson. " 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." Gray's Elegy (omitted stanza). " The redbreast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid,... | |
 | 1885 - 676 páginas
...stanza is,— " There ecatter'd oft the earliest of ye Year By Hands unseen are shower» of Vi'Iet» found; The Redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little Footsteps lightly print the ground." The alterations made by Gray in my MS. are "year" for tpring, "showers of" for frequent, and " Redbreast... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 528 páginas
...the heart to reject it: " 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." Another is— " Hark, how the sacred calm that breathes around, Bids every fierce tumultuous passion... | |
 | 1877 - 668 páginas
...two of your readers : — There scattered 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." Mason says this stanza was printed " in some of the first editions " of the Elegy. It doubtless ippeared... | |
 | John Coleman (of Dover.) - 1851 - 892 páginas
...beautiful in the whole poem. " 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." Gray must have been actuated by some powerful motive to blot such an exquisite stanza as this from... | |
 | 1851 - 496 páginas
...finished production, — " Here 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." This last image portraying the foot-marks of the little feet which come to gather flowers on the grave... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 708 páginas
...— " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found j The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." 17 SCENE II. — " We have done our obsequies." In the 'Studies of Shakspere' (p. 872,) we have given... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 páginas
...and 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. » Page 238. Special care should be taken to specify ROUTLEDGE'S Editions, or inferior ones 'may be... | |
 | 1854 - 544 páginas
...taste of that day : — • There seatter'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.' But without forcing points of resemblance between poets who have their different claims to OUT regard... | |
 | 1854 - 456 páginas
...path we saw him borne ; " 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." THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair... | |
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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... 
