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" THE curfew tolls the knell of parting 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... "
New National Third Reader - Page 431
by Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 240 pages
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder iVy-mantled tow'r, The moping ow) does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 34

1826 - 360 pages
...the sky. How beautiful is night ! And from Gray : — The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman...and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stilness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And...
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The American Reader: Containing Extracts Suited to Excite a Love of Science ...

George Merriam - 1828 - 292 pages
...LXVIII. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. — GRAY. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman...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 droning flight, And...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...! The lowing herd wind 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 holds — Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...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 holds ; Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...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 holds ; Save where the beetle wheels 'his Sroning flight,...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...day, The lowing herd winds P.owly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves an Book Exchange sight, And nil the air a solemn stillness holds. Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, Ami...
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The American National Preacher, Volumes 23-26

1849 - 1188 pages
...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...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds." How such a picture recalls the days of childhood and youth, when we, too, whose homes were...
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Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle, Volume 160

1836 - 748 pages
...is the time incorrect ; and a knell is not tolled for the parting, but for the parted. ' And leaves the world to darkness and to me.' ' Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight.' Here the incidents, instead of being progressive, fall back, and make the picture confused...
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The poetic reciter; or, Beauties of the British poets: adapted for reading ...

Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...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 holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And...
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