 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...  Poetical Favorites, Yours and Mine - Page 1341911 - 454 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 398 pages
...ftii^nefs holds, Save where the beetle 'wheelS his droning flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftan-t folds ; Save that,' from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complam Of Aich as, wandering near her fecret bowery' Moleft her ancient folitary reign. Beneath thofc... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...be employed on the occasion." T. HE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day (t), The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...which he supposes to 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...where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds [3Q]. Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...holds, Save where the beetle wheeh his droning flight, And drowfy tinklings lull the diftant lulus, Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain j Of fuch as, wandering near herfecret bower, Molell her ancient folitary reign. Beneath thofe... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 224 pages
...day , The lowing herd wiud 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 landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds , Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...sometimes used as a verb— w-lt fold his flock" means to fliut his flock iup in B fold. . . ' HI. ;" Save/ that- from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the mqqn. cpmplain. Of such as wand'ring near her secret bower,. Molest her ancient solitary reign. Save—... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...folly to be wise. GHAT. CHAP. X. Elegy -written in a Country Church" . Yard. JL HE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds 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... | |
 | 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...where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...occasion." See Scott's Critical Essays, 8~no. 1785.] THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, r The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, r The Curfeia tolls the knell of parting day, squilla... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...day, The lowing herd winds 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 landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the heetle wheels his drony flight. And... | |
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