 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 sivua
...ffilegg toritten in a ©ountrj? CCi)u«f)sar&. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | 1852 - 248 sivua
...It is a quintessence of humanity. 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 glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
 | 1852 - 460 sivua
...is a quintessence of humanity. rpHE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, J- The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 sivua
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward...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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 sivua
...welcome peaceful evening in. Cowper. 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 glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 196 sivua
...a. specimen of the use of terms conveying exact ideas. Take the opening lines :— The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly...the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way. Now, let them be altered thus, substituting general words, and the poverty of expression will immediately... | |
 | Hyde Clarke - 1853 - 180 sivua
...rhymes alternate. These are eomnoaly arranged in stanzas, or sets of verses. " The сurfew tolls " the knell ' of parting day ; The lowing herds ' wind " slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman ' homewards " plods his weary ' way, And leaves the world " to solitude ' and me." Eight syllable measures... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 sivua
...life to ambition and sordid avarice. 33. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. THE curfew tolls — the knell of parting day, — The lowing herds wind...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... | |
 | 1923 - 748 sivua
...AND MAIDENS FAIR, FOLD YOUR FLOCKS." 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 glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
 | Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 sivua
...Written in a Country Church-yard (1751): 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 glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds Save where the beetle wheels... | |
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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... 
