 | 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 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... | |
 | Robert Gordon LATHAM - 1843 - 236 pages
...alternate lines, and arranged in stanzas. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The 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 Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 pages
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman 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... | |
 | American literature - 1844 - 504 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Stoke Pogeis Church, and Tomb of Gray. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds xh . the world to darknesn and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...MACAULAY. ELEGY 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 the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | 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 his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape from the sight, And all the air... | |
 | George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
...Country Chdrch-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... | |
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The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman 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 solemn stillness... 
