 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...The Muse of Gray, too, his honoured it with » tribute worthy it? tender assiduity : There 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...the ftrst 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. " To build her such a throne... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1804 - 480 pages
...The Muse of Cray, too, has honoured it with a tribute worthy its tender 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... | |
 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...Criticism chooses to decline the examination, unwilling to shew 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 warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. him, who has already condemned... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...Approach 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...showers of violets found " The redbreast loves to build and warble there, " And little footsteps lightly print the ground." THE EPITAPH. Here rests his... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...the 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...showers of violets found : The redbreast loves to build, and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground ! — " though almost unobjectionable*... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...place. The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation : " ' There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' " The Editor of the present... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...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 are 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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Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." ["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. 
