 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Edie Hill - Business - 1876 - 360 pages
...CHURCHYARD. UY THOMAS CRAY. r HE 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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - Elocution - 1878 - 456 pages
...every bosom returns an echo." 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. Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings... | |
 | Mother Angela Gillespie - Elocution - 1877 - 350 pages
...The're is no God beside ! 2. The eurfew 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. V. MONOTONE. MONOTONE consists of a degree of sameness of tone, in... | |
 | Mother Angela Gillespie - Elocution - 1877 - 346 pages
...There is no God beside! 8. The eurfew 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. V. MONOTONE. MONOTONE consists of a degree of sameness of tone, in... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1878 - 236 pages
...sepulcher ! " Moderate. " 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." Loud. " The combat deepens ! on ye brave Who rush to glory or the... | |
 | Thomas Edie Hill - Business - 1879 - 402 pages
...COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. BY THOMAS GRAY. 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... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1879 - 298 pages
...second with the fourth; as, "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." Remark.— This is the stanza of Gray's "Elegy in a Country Church-yard."... | |
 | Joseph Wadsworth Keene - Elocution - 1879 - 256 pages
...head, O sovereign Blanc ! 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. Expulsive. Sir, we have done every thing that could be done to avert... | |
 | Allen Ayrault Griffith - Elocution - 1879 - 348 pages
...CHURCH-YARP. THOMAS GRAY. 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, -4,nd all the... | |
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And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds... 
