...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...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' " The Editor of the present edition of the Poet, has ventured to recall into the Elegy, one stanza...

...this place. The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation. There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. 7. There they alike in trembling hope repose. L. 127. IMITATION. paventosa speme. Petrarch. Son. 114....

...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...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. THE EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth, to fortune and to fame unknowA : Fair...

...epitaph : There scattered oft. the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets fouu The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Another verse In the original copy is worthy о Г preservation; Mason think» U euual t# »их in...

...There scatter'd oft the earliest of ye year, By hands unseen are frequent vi'lets found ; The robin loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' In the summer of 1759, Gray lodged at Mr Jauncey's, in Southampton Row, Blooms bury, to bo near the British...

...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...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground ! — " though almost unobjectionable* in themselves, and indeed very beautiful, as pieces of description,...

...Country Church-yard," says, " There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The red-breast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." IDA. — " Showers of violets ;" how beautifully that expresses their profusion ! LAURETTA. — And...

...earnest of eternal peace. There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The red-breast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. H'ordsfrom Gray's Elegy, in the Chisicick edition of British Poelt. (Hill and Co.) MADRIGAL,/or 4 Voices.—...

...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...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' " The Editor of the present edition of the Poet, has ventured to recall into the Elegy, one stanza...

...of eternal peace. ****** There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By bonds unseen are showers of violets found, The redbreast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." When you have done this—cease, if you will, to admire, but do not attempt to criticise. Nothing on...