 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...Inflection is capable of perverting the meaning. 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'. The author has marked the inflections and pauses in thia passage,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 420 pages
...dew of 50 heaven. Jer. Taylor. 111. Gray's Elegy. 1 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. 2 Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...Reprinted according to the original copy. 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. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...written in a Country Church Yard. — GRAY 1. 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. * Lea, a meadow, or {Jain. 2. Now fades the glimmering landscape on... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...me there. AN 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 216 pages
...mugissans ; Le laboureur lassé regagne sa chaumière ; r. 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. Qpfá re (TKiooiVTcH) n'» oAtrea ¡шкра Kai v\ai, HWÔe' $ftnreo4a... | |
 | John Comly - 1834 - 226 pages
...kindling o'er the face of ether One boundless blaze." et 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 glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 166 pages
...stanco, Et a me lascia il mondo ea la fose' ombra. 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. 1. II. Л Qpfá Tf VKк'xovTHi, IS óXíтta pаKpà Kai CXai, HvíSf... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 pages
...stanza seldom consists of less than four verses : as, " 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." The most common kind -of verse used in English poetry, is that which,... | |
 | Scotland - 1839 - 894 pages
...name 1 Gray stole from this the id«a of his 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 leave* the world to darkness and to mo. " Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does... | |
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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... 
