 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...Elegy in a Country Churchyard. — GRAY. 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 drony flight, And... | |
 | Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...Grandeur.i From Gray's Elegy. " The curfew tolls, — the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods...to me. " Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds ; Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And... | |
 | Robert Smith Surtees - History - 1847 - 396 pages
...and he presently struck off with — " 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 " u D—n those hounds!" roared he, as the brutes again fell a fighting. Tom then heard... | |
 | Robert Smith Surtees - Hunting - 1847 - 366 pages
...and he presently struck off with — . " 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 — n those hounds!" roared he, as the brutes again fell a fighting. Tom then heard... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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...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... | |
 | 1848 - 530 pages
...pathos and expression, began thus: " 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." My first emotion of surprise gave way in a moment to intense sympathy,... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 614 pages
...picture sketched by Gray : — " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowlv o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds." How such a picture recalls the days of childhood and youth, when we, too, whose homes were... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...Grandeur.i From Gray's Elegy. " The curfew tolls, — the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods...to me. " Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds ; Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And... | |
 | American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary day, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds: 工凡它EPitaA Hereres 打A 七伽切印on 柚， 坤吋切咄 人you 柚toFor 加neon 』... | |
 | John Brewer, Susan Staves - Business & Economics - 1996 - 646 pages
...most consistently anthologized poem in English literature: 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.12 There is certainly no question that Gray's "Elegy" stands in the... | |
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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... 
