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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... "
The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland - Page 338
by Abraham Mills - 1858
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Orthopony; Or the Cultivation of the Voice, in Elocution: A Manual of ...

William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...Grandeur.i From Gray's Elegy. " The curfew tolls, — the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods...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...
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Orthophony; Or The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution: A Manual of ...

William Russell - 1849 - 320 pages
...Grandeur.1 From Gray's Elegy. " The curfew tolls, — the knell of parting day; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods...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...
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The National Preacher, Volumes 23-24

1849 - 614 pages
...picture sketched by Gray : — " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowlv o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary...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,...
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Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons ...

Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...Church-yard. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; 5 The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves...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,...
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Wissenschaftliche Grammatik der englischen Sprache von E. Fiedler (C. Sachs).

Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 768 pages
...In circle following circle gathers round To close the face of things. Gray, elegy. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day The lowing herds wind slowly...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 literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...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...and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the ah- a solemn stillness holds ; Save whore the beetle wheels his droning flight,...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...chastening hand ! Not in thy gorgon terrors clad, Nor circled with the vengeful band (As by the impious thon art seen), With thundering voice, and threatening...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 Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...spark extinct revive; Teach me to love and to forgive; Exact my own defects to scan, What others arc, to feel, and know myself a man. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A...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 Illustrated London Reading Book

1851 - 278 pages
...Deny it to a King ? Then, happy lowly clown ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. SHAKSPEARE. ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew...darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape 011 the sight* ' And all the air a solemn stillness holds, .. J Save where the beetle wheels his drony...
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The speaker: or, Miscellaneous pieces selected from the best English writers ...

William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...destroy their Paradise. No more ; where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise. GBAT. CHAPTER 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 the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle...
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