 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...occasion." See Scott's 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...The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...be employed on the occasion." 1 HE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day (r), The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...day, The lowing herd wind 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...yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the onoon complain Of such, as wandering near her secret '• bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...height, With songs obscene disturbs the silence of the night. DRYDI.V Uhitated by Gray. Save where from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does...secret bower. Molest her ancient, solitary reign. ID the copy subjoined to Croma, " The lonely screech-owl groans," (Soiuque culminibui, &c.) was altered... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...day, The lowing herd wind 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...The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms , that... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...day, The lowing herd wind 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...from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the•moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...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. Now fades the glimmering...folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The mopeing owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...Ver. 2. The lowing herd wmd slowly o'er the lea] " The lowing herds through living pastures rove." The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : VARIATIONS. Ver. 8. And] Or, Ms. M. and W. NOTES. In the Diosemeia of Aratus, this picture... | |
 | England - 1839 - 894 pages
...fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings...secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign." Lord Brougham — that universal genins — does not approve of these stanzas — and criticises them... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...erection of it, this design was not executed. ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly...The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that... | |
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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... 
