 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pàgines
...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 - 1839 - 320 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1849 - 1188 pàgines
...lovely picture sketched by Gray : — "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | 1844 - 630 pàgines
...you no opinion on such preparations. " The beetle hums the knell of parting day ; The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods his weary way." Thomas will take care of the rods and lines ; the latter especially, which should be well dried, ere... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 394 pàgines
...ox , In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the win/it hedger at his supper sat." Gray has " The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way." Warton has made an observation on this passage in Comus ; and observes further that it is a classical... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 420 pàgines
...Jer. Taylor. 111. Gray's Elegy. 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 glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And... | |
 | 1836 - 748 pàgines
...is 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... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pàgines
...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 drony flight, And... | |
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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... 
