| Bradford Frazee - English language - 1845 - 214 pages
...Gentile unsmote by the sword Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord. Byron. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly...ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Gray. OTTAVA RIMA. Arrived there, a prodigious noise he hears, Which... | |
| William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 342 pages
...stipe victus erat ! L. tn a ®ountrn THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds 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 Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...stipe victus erat ! LU. in a Œountrg THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds 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,... | |
| Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 276 pages
...asked;" "Grammar was taught him;" or, "Ha learned grammar." EXERCISES TO BE PARSED. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly...ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Come, behold the doings of Jehovah ! "What astonishing things he hath... | |
| Asa Humphrey - Literature - 1847 - 238 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. Gray. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wiad 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... | |
| Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...pitying human cares. WORDSWORTH. ELEGY. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds 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... | |
| Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 pages
...pitying human cares. WORDSWORTH. ELEGY. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds 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... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1847 - 276 pages
...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...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,... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...Philippa conquers our hearts." LESSON XLI. Elegy in a Country Churchyard. — GRAY. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly...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... | |
| Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...Grandeur.i From Gray's Elegy. " The curfew tolls, — the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
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