 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - Bards and bardism in literature - 1894 - 350 pages
...that she 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... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - English language - 1896 - 492 pages
...Here.' " And how impressive the images of dreariness and ruin in the following, from Ossian ! — " 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... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1898 - 344 pages
...that she 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... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English literature - 1898 - 258 pages
...by Pope or some members of his school, a few lines of its vague and suggestive declamations : — ' 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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 478 pages
...passage or two will exhibit the language and imagery of the whole better than pages of description. "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... | |
 | Friedrich Wilmsen - 1903 - 38 pages
...werf desolate. The fire has resounded in the hall 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 thistte shook there its lonehj head, the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked from the window,... | |
 | Friedrich Wilmsen - 1903 - 44 pages
...Stelle steht in Carthon, über dessen Schluss Byron zwei Jahre später eine Paraphrase verfasste.' I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire has resounded in the hall and the voice of the people is heard no more . . . The stream of Clutha... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Celtic literature - 1905 - 184 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... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - Mississippi River Valley - 1906 - 436 pages
...shake his heels, and, like a mushroom, he'll vegetate on any soil ! La Prairie du Rocher, III. XXXVIII "I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The thistle shook there its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows;... | |
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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... 
