 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 Gordon Latham - 1855 - 542 pages
...Elegiacs. — Five measures, xa, with regularly-alternate rhymes, 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. 9. Rhymes Royal. — Seven lines of heroics,... | |
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 pages
...should incessantly praise, My soul should delight in my God ! EXERCISES ON TIME. SLOW. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day : The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The plowman homeward wends his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 pages
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 1 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. 2 Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 pages
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 1 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. 2 Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 pages
...Elegy written 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. Now fades the glittering landscape on the sight, And all... | |
 | Publius Ovidius Naso - 1857 - 260 pages
...alternate rhymes, and divide it into its harmonic bars by points of suspension. Th« cm-few tolls — the knell of parting day ; The lowing herds — wind...The ploughman homeward plods. . . .his weary way, And leaves the world — to darkness and to me. Here is a rich model of deep gravity nearly in pure... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pages
...performances. The first is given entire. , 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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1857 - 516 pages
...regularly alternate, and are arranged in stanzas. " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, JChe lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea; The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me." — GBAT. SECTION DCLXX RHYME ROYAL. " For,,lo! the sea... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...ELEOY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD.1 The Curfew tolls2 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... | |
 | 1896 - 940 pages
...thirty-two-pounders in the air, I heard him say — •' The curfew tolls, the knell of parting day, The lowing1 herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me." I have heard finer voices than his, — it was as tin... | |
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