| Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 páginas
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. Gray. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wiad 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... | |
| John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 páginas
...Addison. XIX. ELESY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 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... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 páginas
...thee ! GRAY. ELEGY. 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...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... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 páginas
...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...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 wheels... | |
| William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 páginas
...WBITTEN IN A COUNTBY CHIJBCHTAHD. THE curfew tolls 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... | |
| 1848 - 530 páginas
...a tone full of 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,... | |
| William Russell - 1849 - 320 páginas
...Melancholy mingled with Grandeur.1 From Gray's Elegy. " 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... | |
| William Russell - 1849 - 310 páginas
...Melancholy mingled with 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...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... | |
| Patrick Boyde - 1985 - 38 páginas
...the opening of Gray's Elegy by heart: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd 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... | |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1986 - 680 páginas
...of a midshipman and shouting in a hoarse whisper — 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 rest of the verses. Of course Wolfe said it, if he... | |
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