 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 298 páginas
...village scholar : — " 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. " Such, then, were the melancholy, but gentle reveries of the poet, to whom we must now bid STANZAS... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1866 - 656 páginas
...village scholar: — " 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." Such, then, were the melancholy but gentle reveries of the poet, to whom we must now bid farewell in... | |
 | George Burnett Barton - 1866 - 232 páginas
...breadth of the composition : There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found : The red-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly tread the ground. This circumstance of flowers strewn upon a grave by " bands unseen," is the most... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 páginas
...scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found : The redbreast lotes to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode — (There they... | |
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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... 
