 | John Warner Barber - Belgium - 1855 - 608 pages
...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...of the walls. The thistle shook, there, its lonely bend ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the window*, the rank grass of the waJl... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1856 - 590 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 Clutha... | |
 | 1857 - 536 pages
...tliey 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. l/The thistle shook there its lonely head : the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...flames had resounded in the halls, and the voice of the people is heard no more ; the stream of Cutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls ; the thistle shoots there its lowly head; the moss whistled to the winds; the fox leoked out of the windows, lmd... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 362 pages
...north is on the plain; the traveller shrinks in the midst of his journey. DESOLATION OF BALCLUTHA, 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... | |
 | Michael Bruce - 1865 - 334 pages
...Maitlaml's History of Scotland, and Forsytb's Beauties of Scotland. — M'K. NOTK (/) — P. 201. Fox. — 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... | |
 | 1865 - 838 pages
...does not excel Ossian ; in proof of this we need only refer to the ruins of Balclutha in Carthon : " I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire'had resounded in the halls ; and the voice of ttoe people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha... | |
 | Michael Bruce - 1865 - 290 pages
...land's History of Scotland, and Forsytes Beauties of Scotland. — M'K. NOTE (t)— P. 201. Fox. — 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... | |
 | Michael Bruce - Poets, Scottish - 1865 - 292 pages
...Maitland's History of Scotland, and Forsyth's Beauties of Scotland. — M'K. NOTE (/) — P. 201. Fox. — 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1866 - 826 pages
...what an apparition of newness and power such a strain must have been to the eighteenth century : — " I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round her head. Eaise the song of... | |
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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... 
