Transferred Epithet

This is the shifting of a qualifying word from its proper subject to some allied subject. Examples: "The little fields made green By husbandry of many thrifty years ." "He plods his weary way ." "Hence to your idle bed !" By this figure the diction is rendered more terse and vigorous; it is much used in verse. For the sake of concisene , it is used in prose in such phrases as the lunatic asylum , the criminal court , the condemned cell , the blind asylum , the cholera hospital , the foundling asylum , and the like. "Still in harmonious intercourse they lived The rural day, and talked the flowing heart." "There be some who, with everything to make them happy, plod their discontented and melancholy way through life, le grateful than the dog that licks the hand that feeds it."