...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...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 droning flight, And...

...is found in the 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...

...mind, as will lead to religious meditation, which always has the eflect of calming the passions, ELECT "WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew tolls...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,...

...lead to religions meditation, which always h:is the eflect of calming the passions Example. EI.EGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew tolls...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,...

...Gloom, or Melancholy mingled with Grandeur* " The curfew tolls, — the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman...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...

...sincerest thanks. JOHN 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,...

...written in a 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...

...laniis genitœ, de 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...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...

...laniis genitae, de 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...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...

...consists of four heroic verses rhyming alternately ; as, 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. The Spenserian stanza consists of eight heroic verses, folAIention...