 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...— • Ah, gallant youth! this marble tells the rest, Where melancholy friendship bends, and weeps. ELEGY, 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 his weary way And leaves... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 pages
...— Ah ! gallant youth ! this marhle tells the rest, Where melancholy Friendship hends, and wesps. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...September. inharmonious sounds from the rookery grow fainter and fainter, when The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods hit weary way ;" the pedestrian will repair for his night's repose to the... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...COUNTRY CHURCH- YARD. GRAY. THE curfew tolls/ the kne'll of parting da'y ; I The lowing he'rd/ winds slowly o"er the le'a ; ! # The plow'man home'ward/ plo'ds his weary wa'y, | And leaves the wo'rld/ — to darkness, and to m'e. J Now fades the glimm'ring lan'dscape/ on the sig'ht, And... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1847 - 276 pages
...steepsAh l gallant youth ! this marble tells the rest, Where melancholy Fricndship bends, and weeps. > ELEGY 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 his weary way, And leaves... | |
 | François René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1848 - 488 pages
...them, recalled to my memory the modest colleges of Dol, Rennes, and Dinan. I had translated Gray's Elegy written in a Country Churchyard: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, an imitation of Dante's line — Squilla di lontano Che paja '1 giorno pianger che si muore. Pelletier... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...once like him to feel : His cypress wreath my meed decree, And I, 0 Fear, will dwell with thee ! GRAY. ELEGY. 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 his weary way And leaves... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...one need give up his youth to dissipation, or hil subsequent life to ambition and sordid avarice. 33. 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 his weary way, And... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pages
...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. — Dr. Johnson. EXERCISE XXXI. Elegy written in a Country Church-yard. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; 5 The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1849 - 476 pages
...them, recalled to my memory the modest colleges of Dol, Rennes, and Dinan. I had translated Gray's Elegy written in a Country Churchyard: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, an imitation of Dante's line— Squilla di lontano Che paja '1 giorno pianger che si muore. Pelletier... | |
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard THE curfew tolls the knell of parting 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. 
