| Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - Počet stránok 394
...ox , In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the win/it hedger at his supper sat." Gray has " The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way." Warton has made an observation on this passage in Comus ; and observes further that it is a classical... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - Počet stránok 360
...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,... | |
| Editor of The family manual and servant's guide - 1835 - Počet stránok 412
...o'clock, 'tis time to ring curfew." But, the most familiar allusion is in the first line of Gray's Elegy written in a Country Churchyard: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. The entries in various parish books prove the ringing of the curfew bell at four in the morning... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - Počet stránok 420
...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... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - Počet stránok 346
...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... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1838 - Počet stránok 522
...the conceptions she forms from it ; two lines will be sufficient example, '•The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea." The curfew, it is more than probable she has never heard of. Perhaps in some of the "Beauties of History... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - Počet stránok 342
...destroy ? An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave ; Legions of angels can't confine 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... | |
| John Comly - 1834 - Počet stránok 226
...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...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... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1839 - Počet stránok 216
...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1839 - Počet stránok 232
...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,... | |
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