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The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III) There scatter'd oft the earliest of ye Year By Hands unseen are showers of Vi'lets found; The Redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little Footsteps lightly print the ground. - Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, his manuscript The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again. [Lat., Vestigia terrent Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (bk. I, 1, 74) And so to tread As if the wind, not she, did walk; Nor prest a flower, nor bow'd a stalk. - Ben Jonson, Masques--The Vision of Delight Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk! - Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew. - Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake (canto I, st. 18) The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light; . . . - William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (l. 1,028) Steps with a tender foot, light as on air, The lovely, lordly creature floated on. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Princess (VI, l. 72) But I will trace the footsteps of the chief events. [Lat., Sed summa sequar fastigia rerum.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (I, 342) Methought I say the footsteps of a throne. - William Wordsworth, Miscellaneous Sonnets--Methought I Saw the Footsteps of a Throne
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