The fire had resounded in the halls : and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of 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... Tenby: A Sea-side Holiday - Page 150by Philip Henry Gosse - 1856 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
| Bards and bardism - 1803 - 352 pages
...The moss whistled to the wind. The " fox looked out from the windows; the rank grass " of the wall waved round his head. Desolate is the " dwelling of...Moina; silence is in the house of her " fathers." Nothing also can be more natural and lively than the manner in which Carthon afterwards describes how... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...head : the moss whistled in the wind. The fos looked out from the windows ; the rank grass of the wall waved round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house of her father. Raise the song of mourning, O bards, orer the land of strangers. They have but fallen before... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...fragment falls ; While birds obscene at noon of night deplore, rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house of her fathers. Raise the song of mourning, О bards, over the land of strangers. They have but fallen before us :... | |
| Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...head : the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows ; the rank grass of the wall waved round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina ; silence is in thehouse of her fathers." Nothing also can be more natural and lively than the manner in which Carthon... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 402 pages
...lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out at the window ; the rank grass weaved round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina. Silence is in the house of her fathers." Shakespeare cannot be omitted on this occasion, as singularly eminent for painting with the pencil... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...the thistle shook there its lonely head; " the moss whistled tfl 'the wind. The fox looked " out of the window ; the rank grass waved round his " head....Moina ; silence " is in the house of her fathers." . . Much of the beauty of descriptive poetry depends upon a proper choice of epithets. Many poets are... | |
| Hugh Blair - English literature - 1811 - 400 pages
..." the fall of the walls; the thistle shook there its " lonely head; the mass whistled to the wimd. The " fox looked out at the window; the rank grass...round his head. Desolate is the dwelling " of Moina. SiJence is in the house of her fathers." Shakespeare cannot be omitted on this occasion, as singularly... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1813 - 296 pages
...walls; the thistle shook there its lonely head : the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out of the window ; the rank grass waved round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina ; silenee is in the house of her fathers." Mueh of the beauty of deseriptive poetry depends upon a... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...by the fall of the walls ; the thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out at the window; the rank grass waved...of Moina. Silence is in the house of her fathers.' Shakespeare cannot be omitted on this occasion, as singularly eminent for painting with the pencil... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1821 - 386 pages
...the thistle shook there ils lonely « head; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked « ont of the window; the rank grass waved round his « head....dwelling of Moina. Silence is in « the house of her falhers. » « J'ai vu la ville de Balclutha, mais elle était aban« donnée. La flamme avait ravagé... | |
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