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" I will set down after this another little fragment, two verses made by Mr. Gray as we were walking in the spring in the neighbourhood of Cambridge, " There pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air. "
Letters Written by the Late Earl of Chatham to His Nephew Thomas Pitt ... - Page 47
by William Pitt - 1804 - 104 pages
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Observations on the Writings and on the Character of Mr. Gray

Thomas James Mathias - 1814 - 190 pages
...expressed himself extempore in these beautiful lines : " There pipes the wood-lark, and the song- thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air."...we seen the greenwood side along, As homeward oft be hied, his labour done, What time the woodlark piped her farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue...
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Mathias's letter on the death of N. Nicholls. Reminiscences of Gray, by the ...

Thomas Gray - 1843 - 352 pages
...Twitcher. 1764." P. 33. Dr. Johnson.] See anecdote on this subject in vol. iv. p. 187, note. P. 34. " There pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air." Compare Erinnte Carm. 1, ed. Wolff, p. 2. P. 36. Green] See Gray's Letter to Walpole, vol. iii. p....
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 189

1891 - 874 pages
...the poet whose mainspring is his own cleverness, or the praise of "the town," than such lines as: — There pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air. It is only fair to insist on this side of Gray's character and poetical position, because an attempt...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - 1866 - 152 pages
...Paul's." IMPROMPTU, WHILE WALKING WITH MR. NICIIOLLS IN THE SPRING IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF CAMBRIDGE. THERE pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air. PART OF AN EPITAPH ON THE WIFE OF MASON. TELL them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, 'Twas e'en to...
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The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith

John Forster - 1873 - 806 pages
...says Nicholls ( Works, v. 34) , as -we were walking in the spring in the neighbourhood of Cambridge. There pipes the wood-lark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air. * Coll. Lett. v. 199. His audience consisted of Lady Aylesbury, Lady Lyttelton, and Miss Rich; his...
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Theology in the English Poets: Cowper--Coleridge--Wordsworth--and Burns

Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1874 - 396 pages
...except in Milton, possessed before. After lines like these, for example, in which every word tells, — There pipes the woodlark, and the songthrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air, it was quite impossible to go back wilfully to the careless profusion of epithets, and the hazarded...
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Theology in the English Poets: Cowper--Coleridge--Wordsworth and Burns

Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1875 - 374 pages
...except in Milton, possessed before. After lines like these, for example, in which every word tells,— There pipes the woodlark, and the songthrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air, it was quite impossible to go back wilfully to the careless profusion of epithets, and the hazarded...
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Gray

Edmund Gosse - 1882 - 246 pages
...less articulate than that little trill of improvised song which Norton Nicholls has preserved : — There pipes the wood-lark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air, a couplet which Gray made one spring morning, as Nicholls 160 GRAY. and he were walking in the fields...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, Thomas Parnell, William Collins, Matthew ...

Thomas Gray - 1883 - 596 pages
...neighbourhood of Cambridge, upon a fine spring morning, he turned to his companion, exclaiming,— There pipes the wood-lark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air. Two lines, finished with such exquisite skill, will hardly bo received as an impromptu. The descriptive...
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The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse

Thomas Gray - 1884 - 450 pages
...of Cambridge." — Norton Nicholls' Reminiscences. Never before included in Gray's Works. — ED.] THERE pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air. TOPHET. [Written by Gray under a caricature of the Rev. Henry Etough, a converted Jew of slanderous...
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