 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...  English grammar and composition - Page 156by Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 pages
...and weeps. ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. 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. • This Epitaph was written at the request of Mr.Frederic... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...Reprinted according to the original copy. 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...plodding, money-loving wight, Who wins their hearts by knowing black from white. Young. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The. lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plodi his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Gray't Klfyy. PLOEN, a town of the... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...with bloody hands the tissue of thy line." ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE curfew tolk the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly...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... | |
 | 1844 - 630 pages
...but as I could never succeed with them, I give you no opinion on such preparations. " The beetle hums the knell of parting day ; The lowing herds wind slowly...lea ; The ploughman homeward plods his weary way." Thomas will take care of the rods and lines ; the latter especially, which should be well dried, ere... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 394 pages
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...Reprinted according to the original copy. 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... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...close. And Hope, enchanted, smiled, and waved her golden hair. EXERCISES ON TIME. SLOW. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward wends his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 pages
...Where melancholy Friendship hends, and wesps. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly...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... | |
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