 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.  Letters from the Irish Highlands - Strana 286autor/autoři: Henry Blake - 1825 - 359 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Nathan Drake - 1800 - 482 str.
...The Muse of Gray, 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 str.
...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...The redbreast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. " To build her such a throne ; that art will feel " How... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1804 - 480 str.
...The Muse of Cray, too, has honoured it with a tribute worthy its tender assiduity : There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found i The Red-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. And... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 str.
...Criticism chooses to decline the examination, unwilling to shew eagerness to condemn 1 There, scatter^ 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. him, who has already condemned himself. For the... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 str.
...and read (forthou 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,...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... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 516 str.
...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...The redbreast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Note XVIII. Verse 122. Let England prize this daughter of... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 524 str.
...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...The redbreast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Note XVIII. Verse 122. Let England prize this daughter of... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 str.
...woodlark pip'd her farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun : — " And, " There scatter'd 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 ! — " though almost unobjectionable* in themselves,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 str.
...The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation : " ' There scatter'd 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.' " The Editor of the present edition of the Poet,... | |
 | 1821 - 444 str.
...red-breast*, wren3, 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,... | |
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