 Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows : and the rank grass of the wall waved round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of...  The Novice of Saint Dominick - Page 255by Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1823Full view - About this book
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...winds; the fix looked out of the ivindo-ais, and the rank grass of the walls waved round his head; desolate is the dwelling of Morna: silence is in the house of her fathers." — FINGAI. The beauty of this description must strike every one who possesses the least taste. The... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...the wind. The fox looked out from the windows; and the rank grass of the wall waved round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of Morna: silence is in the house of her fathers. To draw a character is the master-stroke of description. In this Tacitus excels: his portraits are... | |
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...the wind. The fox looked out from the window, aud the rank grass of the wall waved round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of Morna; silence is in the house of her fathers !» are the admission of unmeaning or supernumerary epithets and phrases, the introduction of general... | |
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...the wind. The fox lookad out from the windows, and the rank grass of the wall waved round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of Morna, silence is in the house of her fathers." The effect of language may even be greater than that of the pencil, since the latter can present images... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1831 - 328 pages
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 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1840 - 314 pages
...the wind. The fox looked out from the window, and the rank grass of the wall waved round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of Morna ; silence is in the house of her fathers !" 592. The chief errors committed in descriptions, are the admission of unmeaning or supernumerary... | |
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...wind. The fox looked out from the windows : arid the rank grass of the wall waved around his head. Desolate is the dwelling of Morna : silence is in the "house of her fathers. — Ossian. LESSON XVII. Letter from the Poet Cotrper to Mrs. King. October II, 1788. 1 You are perfectly... | |
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...to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows ; the rank grass of the walls waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Morna; silence is in the house of her fathers." In the reign of Queen Mary this stronghold Was taken by an escalade. This was accomplished by Captain... | |
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