 | Thomas Love Peacock - Puritans - 1806 - 168 pages
...she may rest with the fair of MORVEN, the sun-beams of other days, and the delight of heroes of old. I have seen the walls of BALCLUTHA, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls : the voice of the people was heard no more. The stream of CLUTHA was... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...strong colours, and is remarkable for touching the heart. He thus pourtrays the ruins of Balclutha : " I have seen the walls " of Balclutha ; but they were desolate. The fire <! had resounded within the halls ; and the voice of " the people is now heard no more. The stream... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1810 - 364 pages
...were desolate. The. fire had re" sounded in the balls; 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 Kaim,, in hit Element* of CriticisM, T«l. iii. chap. 21, of narration and dct cription. " shook there... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English literature - 1811 - 400 pages
...desolate. The " fire had resounded within the halls ; and the " voice of the people is now heard no more. The " stream of Clutha was removed from its place...walls; the thistle shook there its " lonely head; the mass whistled to the wimd. The " fox looked out at the window; the rank grass " waved round his head.... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1812 - 282 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...of the walls. The thistle shook there " its lonely heud : The moss whistled to the wind. '• The fox looked out from the windows ; the •• rank grnxs... | |
 | Missions - 1847 - 760 pages
...powerfully, and a graphic description may be transferred from paper to the canvass, as the following : " I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The flames had resounded in the hall, and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...Half of them dare not shake the snow from off their cassocks, lest they shake themselves to pieces. I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but tHey were desolate. The flames had resounded in the halls ; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...Half of them dare not shake the snow from off their cassocks, lest they shake themselves to pieces. I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The flames had resounded in the halls; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha... | |
 | William Hargrove - York (England) - 1818 - 466 pages
...&c. INDEX — LIST of PLATES, and ERRATA to Vol. I. of FROM THE EARLIEST JLGES tO THB PRESENT TIME. " I have seen the walls of Balclutha — but they were desolate ! The fire had resounded in (he halls, and the voice of the warrior in heard no more." Onion. SECTION I.... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1821 - 766 pages
...The walls of Balclutha were desolated. The voice of the people is 'heard no more. The stream of Gutha was removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head. The fox looked out from the windows : the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the... | |
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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... 
