 | 1867 - 494 pages
...they are 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 shakes there its lonely head ; the fox looks out from the windows ; the rank grass of the wall waves... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Celtic literature - 1867 - 216 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 win^ dows, the rank grass of the wall waved round her head. Raise the song... | |
 | Thomas Purnell - Literature - 1867 - 316 pages
...been tenanted for centuries; " the voice of the people is heard no more.. The " stream of Clutha is removed from its place by the " fall of the walls; the thistle shakes there its lonely " head; the moss whistles to the wind. Desolate is " the dwelling of Moina."... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1871 - 298 pages
...dies away with a divine whisper on the fringe of the mystic sea. A wind only, but a voice crying, " 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... | |
 | James Brown (editor, of Elgin.) - English literature - 1873 - 406 pages
...a castle once stately and beautiful, but now deserted and desolate ? If so, hearken to Ossian : — "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 Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...flames had resounded in the balls, 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 looked out of the window*, and... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1875 - 622 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...walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head: the mow whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 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 looked out of the windows, and... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - English literature - 1875 - 494 pages
...she may rest with the fair of MORVEN, the sunbeams 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... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - English literature - 1875 - 496 pages
...she may rest with the fair of MORVEN, the sunbeams 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... | |
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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... 
