 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 231783Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1763 - 784 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thiftle fliook there its lonely head: the mois whittled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows : the rank grafs of the wall waved around his head. Defolate i. the dwelling of Moina : filence is in the houfe of her lathers." Carthon... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1765 - 578 pages
...fhook there its lonely head : the mofs whittled 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 is in the houfe of her fathers. FingaL To draw a character is the mafter-ftroke of... | |
 | Poetry - 1773 - 432 pages
...Th> ftream of Clutha was remored from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thiftle fhook, th*R?, its lonely head : the mofs whiftled to the wind. The fox looked out, from the windows, |he rank grafs of the wall waved round its head* Defplate is the dwelling of Moina, filence is in the... | |
 | Celts - 1784 - 432 pages
...more. The ftream of Cluthawas removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thiftle fhook, there, its lonely head: the mofs whiftled to the wind....the windows, the rank grafs of the wall waved round its head. Defolate is the dwelling of Moina, filence is in the houfe of her fathers. Raife the fong... | |
 | 1785 - 456 pages
..." The ftream of Clutha was removed from its " place by the fall of the walls. ' The thiftle " fhook there its lonely head: The mofs whiftled " to the wind. The fox looked out from the « c windows; the rank grafs of the wall waved " round his head. Defolate is the dwelling of " Moina;... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788 - 590 pages
...fhopk there its lonely head : the mofs whiltled 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 is in the houfe of her fathers. Fingal. To To draw a character is the mafter-ftroke... | |
 | Ossian - 1790 - 446 pages
...more. The ftream of Glutha was removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thiftle ihook, there, its lonely head : the mofs whiftled to the...the windows, the rank grafs of the wall waved round its head. Defolate is the dwelling of Moina, filence is in the houfe of her fathers. Raife the fong... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - Gowrie Conspiracy, 1600 - 1800 - 500 pages
...the fall of the " walls. The thiftle fhook there its lonely head ; the " mofs whiftled to the winds. The fox looked out from " the windows ; the rank grafs of the walls waved around " its head." i. 82. Here, however, we difcover the imitations of fcattered paflages... | |
 | James Macpherson - 1801 - 348 pages
...re"moved from its place by the fall of "the wall*. The thiftle Ihook there iu on the POEMS of OSSIAN. 117 "lonely head : The mofs whiftled to "the wind. The...fox looked out from "the windows ; the rank grafs of tht "wall waved round his head. Defulate "is trie dwelling of Moina; iilence is "in the houfe of her... | |
 | 1801 - 326 pages
...its place , by the fall of the walls. The thiftle i'hook, there , its lonely head : the mofs whittled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grafs of the wall waved round its head. Defolate is the dwelling of Moina, h'lence is in the houfe of her fathers. Raife the fong... | |
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