 | 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... | |
 | Peter Hately Waddell - Arran, Island of (Scotland) - 1875 - 446 pages
...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 desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls ; and the voice of the people is no more. The stream of Clutha was... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...and slow. may rest with the fair of Morven, the sunbeams of other days, the delight of heroes of old. 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... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1878 - 314 pages
...best passages are not characterized by a predominance of the " direct " order. For example : — " I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round her head. Raise the song of... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 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 : and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 336 pages
...Ossian's best passages are not characterized by a predominance of the " direct" order. For example : — " I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round her head. Raise the song of... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...north is on the plain ; the traveller shrinks in the midst of his journey. DESOLATION OF BALCLUTHA. 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. Tho stream of Clutha... | |
 | Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - Monuments - 1882 - 572 pages
...beautiful passage of Ossian.f relating to the daughter of Eeuthamir, the " white-bosomed " Moina : — " 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 thistle shook there... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Celtic literature - 1883 - 334 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 windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round her head. Raise the song of... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - English poetry - 1883 - 384 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... | |
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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... 
