 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...blessed angels, pitying human cares. WORDSWORTH. 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 leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | Robert Smith Surtees - Fox hunting - 1847 - 396 pages
...he presently struck off with — " 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 " u D—n those hounds!" roared he, as the brutes again fell a fighting. Tom then heard... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...in a Country Churchyard. — 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. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - Literature - 1847 - 238 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. Gray. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wiad 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... | |
 | Robert Smith Surtees - Hunting - 1847 - 366 pages
...presently struck off with — . " 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 " "D — n those hounds!" roared he, as the brutes again fell a fighting. Tom then heard... | |
 | 1848 - 530 pages
...assured her that to listen would afford me pleasure, she, in a tone full of pathos and expression, began thus: " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day;...ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me." My first emotion of surprise gave way in a moment to intense sympathy,... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - English language - 1848 - 56 pages
...Addison. XIX. ELESY 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 ! Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...thee ! GRAY. 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 the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...written in a Country Churchyard. 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. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight And all the air a... | |
 | Tina Howe - Drama - 1984 - 100 pages
...and clear with GARDNER'S inflection) "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me." MAGS. HE SAID IT ... HE SAID IT! ... AND IN YOUR VOICE! ... OH DADDY,... | |
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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... 
