...this verse of the " Elegy,"— " Here scattered oft, the loveliest of the year, By hands nnsecn, arc showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to...here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." If, indeed, he had known how to strew such gems through bis "English Garden," « * Many of the bibliographers,...

...are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and 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 warble there, And*little footsteps lightly print the ground." The following stanza was also written by Gray...

...suicide. He resigned his office, and after a long blank interval of * " Here scattered oft, the earliest of the year, " By hands unseen, are showers of violets found, " The redbreast loves to huild and warble here, " And little footsteps lightly print the ground." " I wonder that Gray could...

..." Here scattered oft, the earliest of the year, " By hands unseen, are showers of violets fonnd, " The redbreast loves to build and warble here, " And little footsteps lightly print the ground." " I wonder that Gray could have the heart to omit it," says Lord Byron in his Diary, February 27. 1821....

...Prior in his valuable biography of Goldsmith, vol. ii. p. 479. ** "Here scattered oft, the earliest of the year, "By hands unseen, are showers of violets...here, "And little footsteps lightly print the ground." "I wonder that Gray could have the heart to omit it," says Lord Byron !n his Diary, February 27. 1821....

...made Lord Byron wonder that he could have had the heart to do it. Here scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets...here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Two most charming lines I am tempted to add to these, because neither are lIieit to be found in the...

...scene), too common and undignified for the taste of that day : — • There seatter'd 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.' But without forcing points of resemblance between...

...however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and 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 warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. » Page 238. Special care should be taken to...

...moment of unpardonable hypercHticism, he rejected from his elegy. ' There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found : The Red-breast loves to build and warble near, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' And more directly still, Collins, in his ' Dirge...

...afterwards omitted as too long a parenthesis for the place : f ' There scattered 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. Page 58, line 1. " squilla di lontano Che paia...