 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 pages
...LXVIII. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. — GRAT. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman 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... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH- YARD. GRAY. THE curfew tolls/ the kne'll of parting da'y ; I The lowing he'rd/ winds slowly o"er the le'a ; ! # The...plow'man home'ward/ plo'ds his weary wa'y, | And leaves the wo'rld/ — to darkness, and to m'e. J Now fades the glimm'ring lan'dscape/ on the sig'ht, And... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...auger, sudden fear, &c. EXAMPLES OF SLOW MOVEMENT. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The plowman homeward plods his weary way. And leaves the world to darkness and to me. On horror's head, horrors accumulate. High on a throne of royal state,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...alternate, and are arranged in stanzas. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind &jMiIj _ i h %r^ f \ A,S j hAi P jJO j V the world to darkness and to me. — GRAY. RHYME KOTAL. § 715. Seven lines of heroics, with the two... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Belgium - 1855 - 608 pages
...Signature. ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of pBrting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The plowman 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... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...we copy. AN ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman 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... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...every one should put out his light and go to bed. • 1. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 2. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1858 - 424 pages
...alternate, and are arranged in stanzas. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The plowman homeward plods his weary way. And leaves the world to darkness and to me. — G&AY. RHYME ROYAL. § 531. Seven lines of heroics, with the last... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1857 - 584 pages
...more home-spun Saxon thanf "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds riowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way. And leaves the world to darkness and to me." ""When a man grows eloquent, it Is the Saxon clement that lends wings... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1859 - 422 pages
...flight; OOOO ' Thou only God ! There is no God beside! The curfew tolls the knell of parting day; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. EXERCISE ON RATE. Select a sentence, and deliver it as slow as may... | |
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THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 
