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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... "
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray LL.B., Late Professor of Modern Languages ... - Page 79
by Thomas Gray - 1799 - 186 pages
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The Moral and Intellectual School Book: Containing Instructions for Reading ...

William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward wends 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 holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight. And...
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The National Preceptor: Or, Selections in Prose and Poetry; Consisting of ...

Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...Country Church Yard. — GRAY 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. * Lea, a meadow, or {Jain. 2. Now fades the glimmering landscape on...
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English Grammar: Made Easy to the Teacher and Pupil

John Comly - 1834 - 226 pages
...of ether One boundless blaze." et 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...
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Elegy written in a country church-yard, with versions in the Gr., Lat., Germ ...

Thomas Gray - 1839 - 216 pages
...lassé regagne sa chaumière ; r. 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. Qpfá re (TKiooiVTcH) n'» oAtrea ¡шкра Kai v\ai, HWÔe' $ftnreo4a...
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Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard

Thomas Gray - 1839 - 166 pages
...lascia il mondo ea la fose' ombra. 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. 1. II. Л Qpfá Tf VKк'xovTHi, IS óXíтta pаKpà Kai CXai, HvíSf...
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An enlarged edition of Murray's abridged English grammar, by dr. [J.A.] Giles

Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 pages
...of less than four verses : as, " 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 most common kind -of verse used in English poetry, is that which,...
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The Comic annual. By T. Hood

1839 - 300 pages
...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 Eee, and here I be ! Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 45

Scotland - 1839 - 894 pages
...from this the id«a of his Elegy ! " 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 leave* the world to darkness and to mo. " Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does...
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The American Class-reader: Containing a Series of Lessons in Reading; with ...

George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...Country Church-Yard. — GRAY. 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...
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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. (GRAY.) The curfew tolls' — | the knell of parting day; ! | The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea' ; | The ploughman homeward plods...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...
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