 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we leek, as now, thy gift of sleep. X. — Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. THE curfew...ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to d«kness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...would destroy their Paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise. GRAY. CHAP. X. ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting dav, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 pages
...unpitied, and alone." GRAY. . *. " 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." Ibid. " Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...love and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are to feel, and know myself a man. Prodigious motion felt, and rueful throes. At last this odious offspring plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 536 pages
...traces from the furrow came, And the swinlct 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... | |
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 pages
...extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep. X. — Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. THE curfew...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all rhe air a solemn stillness holds ; Save whe-e the beetle... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...to feel, and know myself a man. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTBY С'ППК'НУ ЛК 1,. I'm: eurfew tolls nd or will, nor bate & jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up, and ste plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the, world to darkness and to me. Nov. fades the glimmering... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...extremes ; And find a life of equal bliss, Or own the next begun in this. PARNEIL. , SECTION II. An 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 homeward plods his weary way, And leaves... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...THE COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. ELEGY. x HE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wïnds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glknmering landscape on the sight, And aIl the air a solemn stillness holds, Save \there the beetle... | |
 | 1826 - 310 pages
...heart ; Life's idle business at one gasp be o'er ; The Muse forgot, and thou belov'd no more, Pope, 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 homeward plods his weary way, And leaves... | |
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ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 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. 
