 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...O high example, constancy divine ! 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - Readers - 1841 - 416 pages
...written in a Country Church-yard. — GRAY 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 darkness and to me. i\bw fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
 | Robert Gordon LATHAM - 1843 - 236 pages
...alternate lines, and arranged in stanzas. 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 darkness and to me.—GRAY. two last rhymes in succession, and the five first recurring... | |
 | John Forbes (teacher in Edinburgh.) - 1843 - 386 pages
...Exercises on the Rules of Syntax. 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. — Gray. The curfew, - The is used hefore nouns in hoth numhers.... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 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 heetle wheels his droning flight, And... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...wings. Low pitch of utterance : 1. 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 from the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods hie weary way, And leaves sight, And all the air л solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1844 - 684 pages
...day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward ploda his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the nir a solemn t.fillnet>ft holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Stoke Pogeis Church, and Tomb of Gray. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds xh . the world to darknesn and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...the time incorrect — and a knell is not tolled for the parting, but for the parted — ' and leaves the world to darkness and to me.' ' Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight.' Here the incidents, instead of being progressive, fall back, and make the picture confused... | |
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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. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness... 
