 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 295 pages
...in a Country Churchyard.. 1. Tim 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 und to me. 2. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834
...ox , In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the win/it 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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 341 pages
...a Country Churchyard, — GRAY. THI 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... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 300 pages
...Elecyicrittcnina. Country Churchyard. 1. THE curfew toils — t!ie kneil of parting day — The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The ploughman homeward plods...to me. 2. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds ; Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 404 pages
...Jer. Taylor. 111. Gray's Elegy. 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 glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 392 pages
...GRAY'S ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YAR&. Reprinted according to the 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... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1838
...the conceptions she forms from it ; two lines will be 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... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 336 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 {Jain. 2. Now fades the glimmering landscape on... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1839 - 212 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,... | |
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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... 
