 | Monthly literary register - 1810 - 730 pages
...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,... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...and read (forthou canst read) the lay Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, " By hands unseen,...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 science... | |
 | William Mason - Church music - 1811 - 516 pages
...the first edition of his Elegy written in a country church-yard. Here scatter'd oft, the loveliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Note XVIII. Verse 122. Let England prize this... | |
 | William Mason - Gardens - 1811 - 524 pages
...the first edition of his Elegy written in a country church-yard. Here scatter'd oft, the loveliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Note XVIII. Verse 122. Let England prize this... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1812 - 760 pages
...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, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...woodlark pip'd her farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun : — " And, " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground ! — " though almost unobjectionable* in themselves, and indeed very beautiful, Milton engages men... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation : " ' There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are...little footsteps lightly print the ground.' " The Editor of the present edition of the Poet, has ventured to recall into the Elegy, one stanza (the fourth)... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation : " ' There scatter'd oft, the earliest of ih<> year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found...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... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...nightingale, red-breast*, wren3, water-wagtail, 1 See TT for 1814, p. 304 ; and for 1817, p. 125. 1 Here scattered oft the earliest of the year, By hands unseen...showers of violets found ; The red-breast loves to haunt and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. GRAY. See likewise TT for 1818,... | |
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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. 
