 ... are language — language clear and expressive in the highest degree. But the close pressure of the dog's breast against the wood, the convulsive clinging of the paws, which has dragged the blanket off the trestle, the total powerlessness of the head...  The Illustrated photographer - Page 2411870Full view - About this book
 | 1847 - 584 pages
...dragged the blanket off the trestle, the total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the eye in it* utter hopelessness, the rigidity of repose which marks that there has been no motion nor change... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856 - 596 pages
...dragged the blanket off the treesel, the total powerlessness of the head laid close and motionless upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the...in its utter hopelessness, the rigidity of repose that marks that there has been no motion or change in the trance of agony since the last blow was struck... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1860 - 432 pages
...dragged the blanket off the trestle, the total powerlessness of the head laid close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the...trance of agony since the last blow was struck on the coffin lid, the quietness and gloom of the chamber, the spectacles marking the place where the Bible... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1904 - 600 pages
...dragged the blanket off the trestle, the total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the...repose which marks that there has been no motion, no change in the trance of agony since the last blow was struck on the coffin lid, the quietness and... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1872 - 500 pages
...dragged the blanket off the trestle, the total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the...since the last blow was struck on the coffin-lid, the quiatness and gloom of the chamber, the spectacles marking the place where the Bible was last closed,... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1873 - 380 pages
...total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, CLARKSOiV STANFIELD. 251 the fixed and tearful fall of the eye in its utter...trance of agony since the last blow was struck on the coffin lid, the quietness and gloom of the chamber, the spectacles marking the place where the Bible... | |
 | Sarah Tytler - 1874 - 380 pages
...dragged the blanket off the trestle, the total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the...trance of agony since the last blow was struck on the coffin lid, the quietness and gloom of the chamber, the spectacles marking the place where the Bible... | |
 | 1874 - 620 pages
...dragged the blanket off the trestle ; the total powerlessness of the head laid clo^e and motionless upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the...in its utter hopelessness ; the rigidity of repose that marks that there has been no motion nor change in the trance of agony since the lust blow was... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1879 - 156 pages
...dragged the blanket off the trestle ; the total powerlessness of the head, laid close and motionless upon its folds ; the fixed and tearful fall of the...the trance of agony since the last blow was struck upon the coffin-lid ; the quietness and gloom of the chamber ; the spectacles marking the place where... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 pages
...dragged the blanket ofl the trestle, the total powerlessness of the head, laid close and motionless upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the eye in its utter hopelessness; . . . these are all thoughts by which the picture is separated at once from hundreds of equal merit,... | |
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