| Book - 1841 - 164 páginas
...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 - 1841 - 416 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 1844 - 324 páginas
...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 - 1844 - 428 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 1844 - 684 páginas
...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 - 1844 - 738 páginas
...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... | |
| 1849 - 600 páginas
...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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