...the continuance of his toils. Not till " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, And lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world ," too late to reach the house of God, or the humbler chamber where two or three are met...

...opening stanzas of Gray's Elegy : 'The curfew toll» 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. Л summer evening in the country is associated in most minds with...

...Melancholy mingled with Grandeur* " 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...

...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 homeward plods...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,...

...snow in the glance of the Lord. Byron. 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 the world to darkness and to me. Gray. OTTAVA RIMA. Arrived there, a prodigious noise he hears, Which...

...MARTIN. LONDON. Oct. 10th, 1831. 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. w* I. LENOX »ND II. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,...

...Country Church Yard. — GRAY 1. 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. * Lea, a meadow, or plain. 2. Now fades the glimmering landscape on...

...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 quiet village inn, where...

...learned grammar." EXERCISES TO BE PARSED. 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 the world to darkness and to me. Come, behold the doings of Jehovah ! What astonishing things he hath...

...alarmed by the signs of danger ! "The curfew lolls 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," Grey. •' The short'ning summer day is near its close ; The miry...