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Footsteps: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

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 — The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. III.

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! C.— BEN JONSON — The Sad Shepherd.

I heard him walking across the floor, And he always does, with a heavy tread.— LONGFELLOW — Christus. Pt. II. The

Golden Legend. II. A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.— SCOTT — Lady of the Lake. Canto I. St. 18.

The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light. Venus and Adonis. L. 1,028. Steps with a tender foot, light as on air, The lovely, lordly creature floated on.— TENNYSON — The Princess. VI. L. 72.

Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne.— WORDSWORTH — Miscellaneous Sonnets.

Methought I Saw the Footsteps of a Throne.