 | Robert Gordon LATHAM - 1843 - 236 pages
...Elegiacs.—Five measures, xa, with regularly alternate lines, and arranged in stanzas. 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.—GRAY. two last rhymes in succession, and the five first recurring... | |
 | John Forbes (teacher in Edinburgh.) - 1843 - 386 pages
...Exercises on the Rules of Syntax. 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. — Gray. The curfew, - The is used hefore nouns in hoth numhers.... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...wings. Low pitch of utterance : 1. The curfew tolls, — the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape from the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...night. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Stoke Pogeis Church, and Tomb of Gray. The curfew tolls . the world to darknesn and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...night. Elegy Written in a Country C'hurchyard. Stoke Togeis Church, and Tomb of Gray. The curfew tolls $H߃$ $ hie weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the... | |
 | American literature - 1844 - 504 pages
...scripture for the continuance of his toils. Not till " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, And lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world ," too late to reach the house of God, or the humbler chamber where two or three are met... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 410 pages
...deep Low pitch of utterance : 1. The curfew tolls, — the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape from the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight,... | |
 | Bradford Frazee - English language - 1845 - 214 pages
...Gentile unsmote by the sword Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord. Byron. 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. Gray. OTTAVA RIMA. Arrived there, a prodigious noise he hears, Which... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 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. * Lea, a meadow, or plain. 2. Now fades the glimmering landscape on... | |
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ELEGY, 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 the world to darkness and to me. 
