 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 238 trang
...Elegy : There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are show'rs of violets found 5 The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. * grim-grinning king."] Milton, I believe, has been justly and universally considered as unrivalled,... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 trang
...beneath yon aged thorn. " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, " By hands unseen, are showers of violets found " The redbreast loves to build and..." And little footsteps lightly print the ground." THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head uponthe lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair... | |
 | 1812 - 760 trang
...oft, the earliest of the feet, [found ; BjrliamU unsren are showers of violets The re^l)r«a*.t. loycs to build and warble there, • And little footsteps lightly print the ground." GRAY'S ELEGY. Mr. LHJUN, JUtc. 2T, 1811. I HAVE taken the liberty of transmitting fo -you an exact... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 trang
...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. 7. There they alike in trembling hope repose. L. 127. IMITATION. paventosa speme. Petrarch. Son. 114.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 trang
...demand preservation : " ' There scatter'd oft, the earliest of ih<> year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' " into the body of the Elegy. It is acknowledged by Mason and others, to be equal to any in the poem... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 trang
...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.' " The Editor of the present edition of the Poet, has ventured to recall into the Elegy, one stanza... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1823 - 432 trang
...in the Lausdown MSS. No. 777. SUPPLEMENT TO GRAY'S ELEGY IN A CHURCH YARD. (From an American Papfr) THE celebrated Elegy in a Church-yard, by Gray, is well known, and justly admired by every one who has the least pretensions to taste. But with all its polish, and deep... | |
 | Tobias Merton - 1824 - 488 trang
...parenthesis too long :• rThere scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are show'rs of violets found, The redbreast loves to build and...Elegy in a Church-yard, by Gray, is well known, and justly admired by every one who has the least pretensions to taste. But with all its polish, and deep... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 trang
...demand preservation : " 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." — M. I find the first traces of this beautiful idea in an Epitaph upon Timon in the Anthologia :... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 trang
...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.' " The Editor of the present edition of the Poet, has ventured to recall into the Elegy, one stanza... | |
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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... 
