 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...Gray's Elegy, before the Epitaph, the following exquisite lines were inserted : — There scatter^ 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. About the same time Collins' " Dirge in Cymbeline... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...attempts at suicide. He resigned his office, and after a long blank interval of * " Here scattered oft, the earliest of the year, " By hands unseen,..." 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... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 272
...hardly convinces us he should have thought best to omit the charming stanza, — " 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." When Gray wrote this he doubtless had in mind... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...inappropriate word for an Epitaph. In Gray's manuscript, after line 116, came the following: 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. This beautiful stanza — enough to make the... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...hardly convinces us he should have thought best to omit the charming stanza, — " 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." When Gray wrote this he doubtless had in mind... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...after line 116, came the following: There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseeTi, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. This beautiful stanza — enough to make the... | |
 | 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...embers, it is sweeter to hold to what has been than to think of what may be. JM BARRIE. 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. 93 To this I am most constant Though destiny... | |
 | Theodore Frelinghuysen Wolfe - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 286
...eyes pursue the setting sun;" and this, from the description of the poet's grave: " 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." We may judge what was the high standard of Gray,... | |
 | Eliza Orne White - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...home. "You mean the one about the robins? Please say it ; I have forgotten 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.' " " It is beautiful," she assented, " but it... | |
 | Charles Dent Bell - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 296
...Elegy," which, though printed in some of the first editions, was afterwards omitted : " There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of vi'lets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the... | |
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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. 
