 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 310 pages
...edition of his Elegy written in a country churchyard. Here scatter'd oft, the loveliest of the year, Bv hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Or fix this votive tablet, fair inscribed With... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...place. The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely lino, and demand preservation. There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 352 pages
...on a tablet the following stanza from his celebrated elegy 1 :—- Here scattered oft tlie 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. V. Aristotle was accustomed to say, that melancholy... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 480 pages
...parenthesis too long :• There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the jear, By hands unseen, are slmw'rs of violets found, The redbreast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. In the " Relics of Literature," an American writer observes, that " the celebrated Elegy in a Church-yard,... | |
 | Tobias Merton - 1824 - 488 pages
...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...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. In the " Relics of Literature," an American writer observes, that " the celebrated Elegy in a Church-yard,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...in this place. The lines, however, are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation : " There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By...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 :... | |
 | Henry Blake - Connemara (Ireland) - 1825 - 392 pages
...pebbles that can be found on the shore below. You will be romantic, and imagine that Here scatterM oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...violets found, The red-breast loves to build and warble here, And tiny footsteps lightly print the ground. But the brake, alas ! cannot afford shelter sufficient... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 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, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 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.... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 pages
...borne : Approach, and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By...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. 
