| English poetry - 1785 - 316 pages
...youtlf. Written in 1758. AN ELEGY Written in a COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. BY Mr. GAA Y. THE curfew tells the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind flowly...The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefa and to me. Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air a... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1036 pages
...myfelf a man. EL EOY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHBSCH-YAHD. THE curfew tolls * the knell of parting Jay, The lowing herd wind flowly o'er the lea, The plowman, homeward plods his weary way, I And leavej the world to darknefs and to me. ' Now fades the glimmering landfcape oh the light, And... | |
| Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1798 - 130 pages
...IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. 'T'HE curfew tolls} the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind ftowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs and to me. 4 Now fades the glimm'ring landfcape on the fight, And all the air a folemn ftillnefs holds, Save where... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...are, to feel, and knowmyíüí anuft. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE Curfew tolls* the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind flowly...plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs яла to me. Now fa'des the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air a folemn ilillnefsholUs,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 542 pages
...conduit, nulta unt ruituratfir, 110 o MS, ELEGY, WRITTIN III A COUNTRY CHURCH- YAR T. BY MR. GRAY. TH E curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind (lowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs and... | |
| Elizabeth Hamilton - Education - 1802 - 472 pages
...the conceptions flic forms from it. Two lines will be a fufficient example: " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, " The lowing herd wind flowly o'er the lea." The curfew, it is more than probable, fhe has never heard of. Perhaps in fome of the " Beauties of Hiftory,"... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 540 pages
...«»JTTIN IM A COUNTRY CHU» CH- Y Л*Р BY MR. GRAY. r I ^ HE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, _£_ The lowing herd wind flowly o'er the lea, The plowman...weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs and to me. Kow fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air a folemn ftillnefs holds, Save where... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 508 pages
...others are, to feel, and know myfjf a man. ELEGY WRITTrN IM A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE Curfew tolls* the knell of parting day. The lowing herd wind flowly...lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way. And leavei the world to darfcnefs and to me. Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the... | |
| Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...WRITTEN IN COUNTRr CHURCH-TARD. T. HE 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 glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
| E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...Country Church-yard. BY 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... | |
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