 | English literature - 1842 - 514 pages
...let us not forget that there is bright happiness too upon earth, where modest Virtue dwells. RUINS. " I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The thistle shook there... | |
 | Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...house, as long at least as I am a partner in it." 458 459 THE RUINS OF ANCIENT CITIES.— No. II. " I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls, and the voice of the people is heard no more ; the stream ofClutha... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...mountains may brighten, and the ocean roll its white waves in light. [Desolation of Ва1сШ1ш."\ r design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search fire had resounded in the halls ; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha... | |
 | Ossian - 1845 - 546 pages
...were desolate. Tlu fire had resounded in the halls : and the voice o. 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 loneh' head : the moss whistled to the wind. The foi looked out from the windows, the rank grass oi... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1847 - 398 pages
...they were desolate. 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 vails. The thistle shook there its lonely head : the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - Scotland - 1847 - 396 pages
...resounded in the halls ; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of the Clutha (Clyde) was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook here its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows ; the rank... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1847 - 516 pages
...had resounded in the halls; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha wus removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook 'here its lonely head : the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from tite windows: and the... | |
 | John Glen - Dumbarton (Scotland) - 1847 - 164 pages
...the fourth century ; the fall of which is thus beautifully described by Carthon, its then owner. " I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls, and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha... | |
 | Charles Mackie - Castles - 1850 - 556 pages
...have been the BALCLOTHA of Ossian, which is thus beautifully described in the poem of " Carthon :" " I have seen the walls of Balclutha ; but they were desolate. The fire 1 Bede, the historian, who flourished about 730, describes Diuibrittm as the strongest fortress... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...the description of the young prince Cormac in the same book, and the ruins of Balclutha in Cartho. I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clntha... | |
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I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. 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... 
