| Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...a Country Church Yard, GRAY. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
| English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...CHURCB-YARJ). BY THOMAS GRAY. • •• THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary' way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. fades the glimmering landscape on the sight. And all the air a solemn... | |
| Thomas Branagan - Charity - 1815 - 376 pages
...illustrate the above sentiment: " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly y womb conceiv'd A growing burden. Meanwhile war arose, And fields the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the eight, And all the air a... | |
| William Oxberry - Theater - 1824 - 402 pages
...IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. The cui few tolls the knell of parting- da,y. The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...COUNTBY С'ППК'НУ ЛК 1,. I'm: eurfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly bear up, and steer Right onward. What supports me? dost thou ask: the, world to darkness and to me. Nov. fades the glimmering landseape on the sight, :Vnd all the air... | |
| George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 292 pages
...Country Churchyard. — GRAY. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
| John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...CHURCH- YARD. GRAY. THE curfew tolls/ the kne'll of parting da'y ; I The lowing he'rd/ winds slowly o"er the le'a ; ! # The plow'man home'ward/ plo'ds his weary wa'y, | And leaves the wo'rld/ — to darkness, and to m'e. J Now fades the glimm'ring lan'dscape/ on the sig'ht, And... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...and are arranged in stanzas. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly ho won. He heard it, but he heeded not : his eyes Were with his hea the world to darkness and to me. — GRAY. RHYME KOTAL. § 715. Seven lines of heroics, with the two... | |
| John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...EXAMPLES OF SLOW MOVEMENT. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The plowman homeward plods his weary way. And leaves the world to darkness and to me. On horror's head, horrors accumulate. High on a throne of royal state,... | |
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