 | Robert Porter St. John - 1911 - 270 páginas
...reading of the epitaph. "There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The red-breast loves to build,...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." I. 119. science. Knowledge in general. 1. 128. bosom. In apposition with abode, line 126. Select from... | |
 | 1911 - 474 páginas
...beneath yon aged thorn. ''There, scatter'd of 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. "Hark! how the sacred calm, that breathes around, Bids ev'ry fierce tumultous passion cease. In still,... | |
 | New York (State). Public Service Commission (First District). - 1913 - 906 páginas
...blue crushed levant morocco, by Riviere. With the last four lines of the poem in parenthesis: ('There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the Year, By Hands...there, And little Footsteps lightly print the Ground') THE GREAT HERBAL The grete herball whiche gyveth parfyt knowledge and understandyng of all manner of... | |
 | 1912 - 662 páginas
...churchyard, where in the spring in the green turf nestles the blue violet and the pale primrose. "There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." No. 107. February, 1912. In this short article, I propose calling the reader's attention to some of... | |
 | Willingham Franklin Rawnsley - 1912 - 336 páginas
...stanza was as follows : — There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build, and...little footsteps lightly print the ground. In the same month that the edition came out, March 1753, Gray's mother died. Gray's inscription on the family... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1913 - 1028 páginas
...scattered oft the earliest of the year, liy hands unseen, are showers of violets found; The red-hreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Rocket Life-saving Apparatus. On December 29, 1807, .luring a terrific gale, a large British frigate,... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - 1914 - 260 páginas
...the parenthesis too long. 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. I have often wondered how Gray could bear to give up these sweet, tender and most natural lines. I... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1915 - 252 páginas
...both Eton and Pembroke MSS. Then 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. Eton MS. has ' Vi lets ' for violets, and ' frequent ' under ' showers of, and ' Robin ' with ' Redbreast... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1916 - 368 páginas
...Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...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 unknown ; Fair... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1916 - 136 páginas
...stanza, which Gray afterward cut out because he thought it too long a parenthesis in this place : There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. The epitaph that follows applies in spirit, though not literally perhaps, to the poet himself, in his... | |
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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... 
