 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 216 trang
...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... | |
 | Ossian - 1870 - 596 trang
...Morven, the sunbeams of other days, the delight of heroes of old. I have seen the walls of Balelutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in...and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from but an east wind drove him to sea ; nor did he ever after see Moina... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - 1871 - 298 trang
...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...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... | |
 | 1872 - 598 trang
...FRAGMENT. BY THEODOEE GROOT. " Urbs Scniirnmi delenda est." . *, f £?o - ;,' O *;\'V' •" •/ " r "Thave seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in its halls, and the voice of its people is heard no more. The fox looked out from the windows, and the... | |
 | James Brown (editor, of Elgin.) - 1873 - 406 trang
...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...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... | |
 | Peter Hately Waddell - 1875 - 446 trang
...years past, for building dykes in the neighbourhood," we are reminded again of Fingal's words — " I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were...resounded in the halls ; and the voice of the people is no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook... | |
 | Peter Hately Waddell - 1875 - 450 trang
...years past, for building dykes in' the neighbourhood," we are reminded again of Fingal's words— " I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were...resounded in the halls; and the voice of the people is no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1875 - 622 trang
...the fair of Morren, the sunbeams of other days, the delight of heroes of old. I have geen the walla of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had...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... | |
 | Peter Hately Waddell - 1875 - 448 trang
...reliable trace of Fingal on the same route — For " I have seen the walls of Balclutha," he says, " but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in...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... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 496 trang
...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 removed from its place, by 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... 
