...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...

...which Mr. Gray had prefixt to his Odes, and under it, on a tablet, this stanza, taken from the ftrst edition of his Elegy written in a Country Church-yard....here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. " To build her such a throne ; that art will feel " How vain her best pretensions. Trace her march...

...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 himself. For the...

...canst read) the lay Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. " 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 EPITAPH. Here rests his head uponthe lap...

...farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun : — " And, " 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 ! — " though almost unobjectionable* in themselves,...

...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 Editor of the present edition of the Poet,...

...themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation : " ' There scatter'd oft, the earliest of ih<> year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' " into the body of the Elegy. It is acknowledged...

...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,...

...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...here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Or fix this votive tablet, fair inscribed With numbers worthy thee, for they are thine? Why, if thou...

...written on a tablet the following stanza from his celebrated elegy 1 :—- Here scattered oft tlie loveliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers...here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. V. Aristotle was accustomed to say, that melancholy was ever attendant on superior genius; and, the...