 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...Critical Essays, Svo. 1785.] JL HE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day (k), The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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 droning flight, And... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...which he supposes to be employed on the occasion." 1 HE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day (r), The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...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 droning flight, And... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...reigns. AN ELEGY 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...occasion." See Scott's Critical Essays, 8~no. 1785.] THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, r The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, r The Curfeia tolls the knell of parting day, squilla... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...CHAP. X. Elegy -written in a Country Church" . Yard. JL HE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o^er the lea ; The ploughman...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... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. [GRAY.] THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea; The ploughman homeward plods...and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save jvhere the beetle wheels his drony flight, And... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...THOMAS GRAY. ELEGY. Written ia a Country Churck-Yard. ^HE 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... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...reigns. AN ELEGY 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...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...London's spiry turrets rise, Think of its crimes, its cares, its pain, Then shield me in the woods again. ELEGY Written in a Country Church-yard. THE curfew...ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to met Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...executed. ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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 droning flight. And... | |
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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... 
