 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...GRAY'S ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. Reprinted according to Ike 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... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 282 pages
...in a Country Churchyard. — GRAT. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman 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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 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 o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1838 - 522 pages
...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... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...September. 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... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...COUNTRY CHURCH- YARD. GRAY. THE curfew tolls/ the kne'll of parting da'y ; I The lowing he'rd/ winds slowly o"er the le'a ; ! # The plow'man home'ward/ plo'ds his weary wa'y, | And leaves the wo'rld/ — to darkness, and to m'e. J Now fades the glimm'ring lan'dscape/ on the sig'ht, And... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...tide he plunged to endless night. XVII. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...alternate, and are arranged in stanzas. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not : his eyes Were with his hea the world to darkness and to me. — GRAY. RHYME KOTAL. § 715. Seven lines of heroics, with the two... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...fear, &c. EXAMPLES OF SLOW MOVEMENT. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The plowman homeward plods his weary way. And leaves the world to darkness and to me. On horror's head, horrors accumulate. High on a throne of royal state,... | |
 | Henry Moody (Curator of the Winchester Museum.) - 1851 - 298 pages
...in a more extended sense, land in general; thus the poet, Gray, writes: — " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the LEA." Aud the old Jacobite song has it : — " Over the water, and over the LEA, Over the water to Charley."... | |
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THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman 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... 
