 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 страници
...its drooping wings. Low pitch of utterance : 1. 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 glimmering landscape from the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 страници
...— Ah ! gallant youth ! this marhle tells the rest, Where melancholy Friendship hends, and wesps. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 страници
...Stoke Pogeis Church, and Tomb of Gray. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind . the world to darknesn and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | 1844 - 504 страници
...continuance of his toils. Not till " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, And lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world ," too late to reach the house of God, or the humbler chamber where two or three are met... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 страници
...mind, as will lead to religious meditation, which always has the eflect of calming the passions, ELECT "WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew tolls...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 страници
...lead to religions meditation, which always h:is the eflect of calming the passions Example. EI.EGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew tolls...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... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 374 страници
...Gloom, or Melancholy mingled with Grandeur* " 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 glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds ; Save where the beetle... | |
 | John Brewer, Susan Staves - 1996 - 646 страници
...anthologized poem in English literature: 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.12 There is certainly no question that Gray's "Elegy" stands in the... | |
 | John Foster, Gordon Dennis - 1995 - 136 страници
...the opening of the poem, which was written about the churchyard at Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire. 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 plods his weary way, And leaves... | |
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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... 
