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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... "
Poétique anglaise - Page 368
by Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806
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The Poetical Works: Of Thomas Gray, ... with Some Account of His Life and ...

Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...(r), 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...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds [3Q]. Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...in a Country Church-yard. BY GRAY. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his...and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the heetle wheels his drony flight. And...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 pages
...r 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 holds, r The Curfeia tolls the knell of parting day, squilla...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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 holds ; Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And...
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Poems on various subjects, selected by E. Tomkins

E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er ihe lea, The plowinau 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 holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...ChurchYard. Gray. TIIK curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er tile utward show ; That we hvniii! never looks esteem....fuolj as wi»e as you might seern. Would ye conte glimm'ringlandsonpe on thesight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels...
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The muses' bower, embellished with the beauties of English poetry, Volume 3

English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...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 solemn stillness holds, Save jvhere the beetle wheels his drony flight, And...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 15

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 pages
...COUNTRY CHURCH- YARD. BY MR. GRAY. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing htrd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his...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...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Mallet, Akenside ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 pages
...Tl>e lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary «ay. And 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 his droning flight, And...
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Rights of God, Written for the Benefit of Man: Or, the Impartiality of ...

Thomas Branagan - 1812 - 370 pages
...sentiment : " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, Tfre plowman 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 a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle...
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