| Thomas Gray - 1839 - 216 pages
...lassé regagne sa chaumière ; r. THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Qpfá re (TKiooiVTcH) n'» oAtrea ¡шкра Kai v\ai, HWÔe' $ftnreo4a... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 pages
...of less than four verses : as, " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea : The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me." The most common kind -of verse used in English poetry, is that which,... | |
| Scotland - 1839 - 894 pages
...from this the id«a of his Elegy ! " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leave* the world to darkness and to mo. " Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does... | |
| 1839 - 300 pages
...made to do duty, after this fashion. The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way — And this is Christmas Eee, and here I be ! Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the... | |
| George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...Country Church-Yard. — GRAY. 1 THE curfew tolls — the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 2 Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...Thy form benign, oh goddess, wear, Thy milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there ELEOY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves... | |
| Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...O high example, constancy divine ! THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
| Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. (GRAY.) The curfew tolls' — | the knell of parting day; ! | The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea' ; | The ploughman homeward plods...the world to darkness, and to me,. | Now fades the glimm'ring landscape" on the sight', | And all the air a solemn stillness holds', | Save where the... | |
| Ebenezer Bailey - Readers - 1841 - 416 pages
...and when first morn. LESSON CLXVII. Elegy written in a Country Church-yard. — GRAY THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herds wind slowly...ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. i\bw fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...— • Ah, gallant youth! this marble tells the rest, Where melancholy friendship bends, and weeps. ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way And leaves... | |
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