Footsteps

Footsteps are the individual acts of taking a step, moving one foot and the next when walking; the term also refers to the sounds of footfalls, and to the the mark or impression left by the foot. By extension, it refers to the indications or waypoints of a course or direction taken. Quotes Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 286. The treadOf coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcherWho holds her heart and waits to hear them pause,And hears them never pause, but pass and die. George Eliot, The Spanish Gypsy (1868), Book III. There scatter'd oft the earliest of ye YearBy 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, manuscript of Elegy in a Country Churchyard; corrections made by Gray are "year" for "Spring", "showers" for "frequent", "redbreast" for "robin". Vestigia terrentOmnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum. The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again. Horace, Epigrams, Book I. 1. 74. Quoted Vestigia nulla retrorsum. And so to treadAs 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. Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake (1810), Canto I, Stanza 18. The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light. William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (1593), line 1,028. Steps with a tender foot, light as on air,The lovely, lordly creature floated on. Alfred Tennyson, The Princess (1847), VI, line 72. Sed summa sequar fastigia rerum. But I will trace the footsteps of the chief events. Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), I, 342. Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne. William Wordsworth, Miscellaneous Sonnets, Methought I Saw the Footsteps of a Throne. External links footsteps Category:Themes