 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 524 Seiten
...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...here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Note XVIII. Verse 122. Let England prize this daughter of the East Our common laurel was first brought... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 516 Seiten
...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...here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Note XVIII. Verse 122. Let England prize this daughter of the East Our common laurel was first brought... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 352 Seiten
...on a tablet the following stanza from his celebrated elegy 1 :—- Here scattered oft tlie loveliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets...here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. V. Aristotle was accustomed to say, that melancholy was ever attendant on superior genius; and, the... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 Seiten
...elegy1: — = Here scattered oft the loveliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of riolets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. V. Aristotle was accustomed to say, that melancholy was ever attendant on superior genius ; and, the... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 Seiten
...Church-yard. Here scatter'd oft, the loveliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets fouud ; The redbreast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Amid the purple crags of of Borrowdale ; And try like those to pile thy range of rock In rude tumultuous... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1831 - 572 Seiten
...The present, at Ibis season, reminds one of Gray's stanza, omitted from big elegy. ' Here scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' As fine a stanza as any in his elegy. I wonder that he could have the heart to omit it. " Last night... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 592 Seiten
...scatter'd oft, the earliest of lhe year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The red-breas1 loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. As fine a stanza as any in his elegy. I wonder that he could have the heart to omit it. « Last night... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1833 - 678 Seiten
...present, at this season, reminds one of ' Gray's stanza, omitted from his elegy : ' Here scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, ' By hands unseen,...here, ' And little footsteps lightly print the ground. ' As fine a stanza as any in his elegy. I wonder that ' he could have the heart to omit it. ' Last... | |
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Here scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The red-breast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground ". As fine a stanza as any in his elegy. 
