 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
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...night. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Stoke Pogeis Church, and Tomb of Gray. 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 darknesn and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...night. Elegy Written in a Country C'hurchyard. Stoke Togeis Church, and Tomb of Gray. The curfew tolls $H߃$ $ hie weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the... | |
 | 1844 - 504 pages
...scripture for 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... | |
 | Bradford Frazee - 1845 - 214 pages
...Gentile unsmote by the sword Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord. Byron. 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. OTTAVA RIMA. Arrived there, a prodigious noise he... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 pages
...asked;" "Grammar was taught him;" or, "Ha learned grammar." EXERCISES TO BE PARSED. 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. Come, behold the doings of Jehovah ! "What astonishing... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...No wealth is like a quiet mind. AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD.— Gray. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughboy homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 126 AN ELEGY WRITTEN... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...Philippa conquers our hearts." LESSON XLI. Elegy in a Country Churchyard. — GRAY. 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... | |
 | Robert Smith Surtees - 1847 - 396 pages
...but that did not seem to answer any better, and he presently struck off with — " 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 " u D—n those hounds!" roared he, as the brutes again fell a fighting. Tom... | |
 | Robert Smith Surtees - 1847 - 366 pages
...but that did not seem to answer any better, and he presently struck off with — . " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly...lea ; The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to " "D — n those hounds!" roared he, as the brutes again fell a fighting. Tom... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...life to ambition and sordid avarice. 33. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. THE curfew tolls — the knell of parting day, — The lowing herds wind...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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