| Thomas Warton - Dialect poetry, Scottish - 1753 - 164 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHUaCH YARD. THE Curfeu tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds flowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs, and to me. Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air... | |
| Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1753 - 164 pages
...IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. TH E Curfeu tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds flowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs, and to me. Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air... | |
| Collection - English poetry - 1755 - 378 pages
...COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. By Mr. GRAY. TH E Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind flowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs and to me. Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air a... | |
| Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1758 - 384 pages
...wind flowly o'er the lea, The plowman homewards plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs and to me. Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air a folemn ftillnefs holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the... | |
| Robert Lloyd - English poetry - 1762 - 312 pages
...Church- Yard. By Mr. GRA Y. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind flowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs and to me. Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air a... | |
| John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...ELEGY. Written in a country The-curfeu tolls the knell of parting day, "The lowing herd winds flowly o'er the lea. The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs, and to me. Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air... | |
| Collection - 1765 - 418 pages
...wind flowly o'er the lea, The plowman homewards plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs and to me. Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air a folemn ftillnefs holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the... | |
| English poetry - 1765 - 414 pages
...wind flowly o'er the lea, 'The plowman homewards plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs and to me. Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air a folemn ftillnefs holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the... | |
| Archibald Campbell - Authors, English - 1767 - 268 pages
...arrogance. Mr. G— . Mr. G--Y. The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind flowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way,. A'nd leaves the world to darknefs and to me. MERCURY. Admirably fimple and elegant ! Uniververfally natural, Dorick,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...is pathetic and interefting. THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds flowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs and to me. Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air a... | |
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