 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE curfew tolk the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...written in a Country Churchyard. The curfew to'ls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds P.owly glimmering landscape on the sight, And nil the air a solemn stillness holds. Save where the beetle... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...myself a man. ELEGY WBITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. Tut 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. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English wit and humor - 1839 - 320 pages
...Churchyard, was thus made to do duty, after this fashion. 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 this is Christmas Eve, and here I be ! Now fades the glimmering landscape on "the sight, And all the... | |
 | John Smith (lecturer on education.) - 1830 - 98 pages
...class, will gain something in every exercise. EXAMPLE. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, Awl leaves the world to darkness and to me. Q. What is the curfew ? A. The evening bell. Q. But why... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 1188 pages
...remind us of the lovely picture sketched by Gray : — "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...sadness walk alone; There comes a glorious day when we shall know As we are known. THOMAS GRAY. ELEQY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...XIII. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. 1. 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. 2. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...estimate ! ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. TH E curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...Inflection is capable of perverting the meaning. 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'. The author has marked the inflections and pauses in thia passage,... | |
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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... 
