 | Thomas Gray - 1904 - 368 pages
...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 arr." I asked him how he felt when he composed the Bard. " Why, I felt myself the bard." Spenser was... | |
 | Thomas Marc Parrott - 1904 - 330 pages
...for Nichols while walking with him in the spring fields near Cambridge: "There pipes the wood lark, and the songthrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air." Or what other poet could so have caught the flute-like note of the young Milton as Gray did in the... | |
 | William Alfred Dutt - 1907 - 484 pages
...they were walking together in the fields near Cambridge that Gray composed the charming couplet — " There pipes the wood-lark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air." For the preservation of these lines we are indebted to Nicholls. Gray died on July 30, 1771. How deeply... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - 1896 - 312 pages
...thrilling ecstacy ; And, lessening from the dazzled sight, Melts into air and liquid light, "* and, " There pipes the wood-lark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air."2 Though undated these lines in their spirit and workmanship ally themselves at once with the... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1917 - 560 pages
...THOMSON. We arc indebted to the Rev. Norton Nicholls for the preservation of Gray's beautiful couplet There pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air. Nicholls when giving the lines in his Reminiscences calls them 'two verses made by Mr Gray as we were... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1917 - 552 pages
...THOMSON. We are indebted to the Rev. Norton Nicholls for the preservation of Gray's beautiful couplet There pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air. Nicholls when giving the lines in his Reminiscences calls them 'two verses made by Mr Gray as we were... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1923 - 528 pages
...Where can be found a touch of melody more spontaneous, sweet, and sensitive than such lines as these : There pipes the woodlark and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes on the waste of air. If we can hardly say that in Gray's book of verses are "infinite riches in a little... | |
 | 320 pages
...its everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God. XXXI. COUPLET ABOUT BIRDS. THERE pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air. XXXII. ODE FOR MUSIC. AIR. "HENCE, avaunt, ('tis holy ground) Comus, and his midnight crew, And Ignorance... | |
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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. 
