| Frederick Dinsdale - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 182
...redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Fays to trusted man his annual visit." Thomson. " There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...violets found : The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." Gray's Elegy (omitted stanza). " The redbreast... | |
| John Fisher Murray - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...small accents whispering from the ground A grateful earnest of eternal peace. ****** There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are...violets found, The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." When you have done this—cease, if you will,... | |
| عدد الصفحات: 432
...the end of the poem, before his epitaph ; but is well worthy of insertion : — " There scattcr'd, oft the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found, The redbreast comes to build and nestle there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." The house where Gray... | |
| Eliza Cook - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...the end of the poem, hefore his epitaph ; but is well worthy of insertion : — " There scutter'd, oft the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violcis found, The redbreast comes to build and nestle there, And little footsteps lightly print the... | |
| 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 668
...hat pretty suppressed stanza, which may be new :o one or two of your readers : — There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...violets found ; The red-breast loves to build and warble there. And little footsteps lightly print the ground." Mason says this stanza was printed " in some... | |
| Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 532
...Byron (who quotes and admires it) how Gray could have had the heart to reject it : " There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are...violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." Another is — '• Hark, how the sacred calm... | |
| 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...praise has been justly awarded to one, singularly enough omitted in the finished production, — " Here scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...violets found; The red-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." This last image portraying the foot-marks of... | |
| John Coleman (of Dover.) - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 892
...Elegy, since the stanza in question was one of the most beautiful in the whole poem. " There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are...violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." Gray must have been actuated by some powerful... | |
| 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 1170
...editions of Gray's Elegy, before the Epitaph, the following exquisite lines were inserted : " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...violets found : The Redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." And about the same time Collins's "Dirge in... | |
| Thomas Gill - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...the following words of Gray perfectly accord with the sweet seclusion of the place. Here scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found; The red- breasts love to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. By a gentle... | |
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