 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 472 pages
...as will lead to religious meditation, which always has the effect of calming the passions, Example. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...as will lead to religious meditation, which always has the effect of calming the passions. Example. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Save that, from... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...of mind, as will lead to religious meditation, which always has the effect of calming the passions. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds: Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as,... | |
 | William Chambers - Children's poetry - 1851 - 200 pages
...usefulness, Man to comfort and to bless ; And these desert wastes must be Untracked regions but for thee ! ELEGY. WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew...and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,8 And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.8 Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as,... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1851 - 392 pages
...skims o'er the deep Low pitch of utterance : 1. The curfew tolls, — the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape from the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight,... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. v THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And... | |
 | English language - 1851 - 278 pages
...ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape 011 the sight* ' And all the air a solemn stillness holds, .. J Save where the beetle wheels his drony... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...undisturbed by polemics. It is a quintessence of humanity. rpHE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, J- The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as,... | |
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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... 
