 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 - 482 pagina’s
...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 - 224 pagina’s
...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 - 480 pagina’s
...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 - 312 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 - 236 pagina’s
...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 - 432 pagina’s
...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 - 730 pagina’s
...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... 
