 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...and weeps. 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...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... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...and all mankind. O high example, constancy divine ! 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 glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 408 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. (GRAY.) The curfew tolls' — | the knell of parting day; ! | The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea' ; | The ploughman...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... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 pages
...its drooping 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...world to 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...Carlisle. MACAULAY. ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...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... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 pages
...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...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 heetle wheels his... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pages
...the passions, ELECT "WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The ploughman...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 pages
...passions Example. EI.EGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman...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... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 372 pages
...Gloom, or Melancholy mingled with Grandeur* " The curfew tolls, — the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman...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... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 372 pages
...laniis genitœ, de stipe victus erat ! LU. in a Œountrg THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...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... | |
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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... 
