 | William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...unpitied, and alone." GRAY. . *. " 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." Ibid. " Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1824 - 536 pages
...ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swinlct hedger at his supper sat." Gray has, " The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way." Warton has made an observation on this passage in Comus; and observes further that it is a classical... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - Education - 1825 - 272 pages
...the conceptions she forms from it. Two lines will be a sufficient example : " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea." The curfew, it is more than probable she has never heard of. Perhaps in some of the Beauties of History,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...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 the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...LIBRARY A»TOH, LXNOX AN* TILMM rOUNBATlOMB ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...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 the world to darkness and to me. Now fades' the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...Where melancholy Friendship bends, and weeps. ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly...ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. • This Epitaph was written at the request of Mr.Frederic Montagu,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 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 glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...GRAY'S ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. Reprinted according to Ike original copy. THE curfew tolls — the knell of parting day ! The lowing herd wind slowly...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... | |
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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... 
