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" 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... "
An excursion to Windsor, in July 1810. Also A sail down the river Medway ... - Page 367
by John Evans - 1817
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œuvres de M. J. Chénier ...: précédés d'une notice sur Chénier, Volume 3

Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 pages
...fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds , Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings...distant folds. Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...fades the glimmering landseape on the sight, :Vnd all the air a soleum stillness holds, Save where the s tower, The moping owl does to aie moon eomplain Of sueh as, wandering near her seeret bower, Molest...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1825 - 382 pages
...fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all rhe air a solemn stillness holds ; Save whe-e the beetle wheels his droning flight,' And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Save that from yonder ivy-rnantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret...
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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 Poetical Works

Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 pages
...fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings...distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest...
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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

1826 - 310 pages
...fades' the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds ; Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings...distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest...
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The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the ...

Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 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 tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wandering near her secret bower, Molest...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 34

1826 - 360 pages
...the sight, And all the air a solemn stilness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl doth to the moon complain Of such as vvand'ring near her secret bow'r Molest...
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The Works of Thomas Gray, Esq

Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 pages
...fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings...distant folds , Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as waud'ring near her secret bower, Molest...
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 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 tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest...
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