 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1753 - 168 pages
...banifh'd peace, thy laurels torn. AN ELEGY. WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. THE Curfeu tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds flowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs, and to me. Now fades the glimmering... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1753 - 164 pages
...banifli'd peace, thy laurels torn. AN ELEGY. WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. TH E Curfeu tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds flowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs, and to me. Now fades the glimmering... | |
 | John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...and may be juftly efteem'da mafterpiece. An ELEGY. Written in a country The-curfeu tolls the knell of parting day, "The lowing herd winds flowly o'er the lea. The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs, and to me. Now fades the glimmering... | |
 | English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...COUNTRY OH UHC H- YAXP. BY MR. GRAY. TH E curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind flowly o'er the lea. The ploughman homeward plods...weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs and to mei. / Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight. , And all the air a folemn ftilnefs holds,... | |
 | John Young - 1783 - 124 pages
...Lincoln's Inn, 1 5th Jan. 1783. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. TH E Curfew tolls the knell of parting day *, The lowing herd winds flowly o'er the lea; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs and to me. II. Now fades the... | |
 | Select lessons - 1785 - 156 pages
...'tillto-night'he dies. PRIOR. An Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard. GRSV. THE Curfew tolls the Knell of parting Day, The lowing Herd winds flowly o'er the Lea, The Plowman homeward plods his weary Way, And leaves the World to Darknefs and to me. Now fades the glimmering... | |
 | James Roach - English poetry - 1792 - 284 pages
...mirror in every mind : and with femimems, to \vhic-h every bofom returns an echo. DR. JOHNSON. r I 'HE curfew* tolls the knell of parting day, •*• The lowing herd winds flowly o'er (he leu , The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs and to me. Now... | |
 | 1796 - 246 pages
...away. ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. ELEGY, •WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. BY MR. GRAY. HE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds flowly o'er the lea; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs and to me. Now fades the glimmeringlandfcapeon... | |
 | British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 pages
...Country Church-Yard. BY MR. GRAY. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds ftowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to daiknefs and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landfcape on the fight, And all the air a... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...Critical Essays, Svo. 1785.] JL HE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day (k), 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... | |
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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... 
