 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...  The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal - Page 3971765Full view - About this book
 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 350 pages
...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 from the... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - Darnley murder - 1804 - 556 pages
...poetical. " I have seen the• walls " of Balclutha, but they were desolate. 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 winds. The. fox looked out from the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1805 - 280 pages
...refounded within the halls ; and the voice o£ " the people is now heard no more. The ftream of " Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of *' the walls...thiftle fhook. there its lonely head ; " the mofs whittled to the wind. The fox looked *' out of the window ; the rank grafs waved round his «« head.... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...from its place by the fall w " the walls. The thistle shook there its lonelvhtad: " 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, " and silence is in the... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...fire had resounded in the halls: and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Cliitha 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, from the... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...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 in the wind. The fos looked out from the... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - Puritans - 1806 - 168 pages
...The fire had resounded in the halls : the voice of the people was 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 from die... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...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 from the windows,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1807 - 588 pages
...flames had refounded in the halls ; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The ftream of Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls....whiftled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows : and the rank grafs of the wall waved round his head. Defolate is the dwelling of Morna : filence... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1809 - 400 pages
...refounded within the halls ; and the voice of the " people is no>v heard no more. The ftream of " Clutha was removed from its place by the fall .of " the walls ; the thiftle fhook there itsionely head : " the mofs whittled to the wind. The fox looked " out at the window ; the rank grafs... | |
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