...parenthesis in this place. The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation. There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are show'rs of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly...

...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...

...parenthesis in this place. The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation. There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are show'rs of violets found; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly...

...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...

...parenthesis in this place. The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation. There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are show 'rs of violets found ? The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly...

...his rustic. Few stanzas in his elegy will vie with that which he has persuaded himself to reject. " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are show'rs of violets found, The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly...

...and demand preservation. There scattdr'el oft, the earliest of the year, "By hands unseen are show'rs of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. 7. There they alike in trembling hope repose. L. 127. IMITATION. paventosa speme. Petrarch. Son. II4....

...was immediately preceding the Epitaph, but being too long a parenthesis, it was afterwards excluded. There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are show'rs of violets found ; ODE TO PITY. [IBID.] O THOU, the friend of man assign'd, With balmy hands...

...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...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. him, who has already condemned himself. For the discontinuance of it in the after-editions, Mason has...

...introduced into his Elegy : There scatter'd oft, the earliest o£ the year, By hands unseen are show'rs of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. * grim-grinning king.] Milton, I believe, has been justly and universally considered as unrivalled,...