 | 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... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 374 pages
...Melancholy mingled with Grandeur* " The curfew tolls, — the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods...to me. " Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds ; Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And... | |
 | William Russell - 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 - 1845 - 214 pages
...snow in the glance of the Lord. Byron. 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. OTTAVA RIMA. Arrived there, a prodigious noise he hears, Which... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1845 - 92 pages
...MARTIN. LONDON. Oct. 10th, 1831. 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. w* I. LENOX »ND II. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 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... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...inharmonious sounds from the rookery grow fainter and fainter, when The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods hit weary way ;" the pedestrian will repair for his night's repose to the quiet village inn, where... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 268 pages
...learned grammar." EXERCISES TO BE PARSED. 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. Come, behold the doings of Jehovah ! What astonishing things he hath... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pages
...alarmed by the signs of danger ! "The curfew lolls 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," Grey. •' The short'ning summer day is near its close ; The miry... | |
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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 solemn stillness... 
