| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...WRITTEN l!f A COVNTHY CHVRCH-YABD. *• 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 on tke sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,... | |
| English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, 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. 1 sqnilla di lontano Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting dav, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. 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 d«kness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
| William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...unpitied, and alone." GRAY. . *. " 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." Ibid. " Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest... | |
| William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1824 - 536 pages
...ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swinlct 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... | |
| Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...highly claims preservation. I shall therefore give them as a variation in their proper place. — MASON. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves...and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, 5 And all -the air a solemn stillness holds, which find a mirrmir in every mind ; and with sentiments,... | |
| Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...written in a country church-yard. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
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