| Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 378 pages
...colors, and is remarkable for touching the heart. He thus portrays the ruins of Balclutha : ' I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded within the halls ; and the voice of the people is now heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed... | |
| Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...the heart. One of his fullest descriptions is the following of the ruins of Balclutha;' ' I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded within the halls; and the voice of the people is now heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed... | |
| Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...colors, and is remarkable for touching the heart. He thus portrays the ruins of Balclutha : ' I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded within the halls ; and the voice of the people is now heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1840 - 314 pages
...much vigour of imagination. " 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 tnore. The stream of Clutha was removed from its course by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1841 - 806 pages
...exclaimed, with Ossian, " I have seen the walls of Conway, but they are desolate. The stream of Conway is removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shakes there its lonely head, the moss whistles to the wind — the rank grass of the wall waves round... | |
| Elvira Anna Phipps - Clyde River - 1842 - 146 pages
...Ossian, and is thus beautifully described by him : " I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they are G desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls, and...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... | |
| English literature - 1842 - 514 pages
...forget that there is bright happiness too upon earth, where modest Virtue dwells. RUINS. " I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The...and the voice of the people is heard no more. The thistle shook there its lonely head : the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows... | |
| London univ, King's coll - 1842 - 686 pages
...forget that there is bright happiness too upon earth, where modest Virtue dwells. RUINS. " I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The...fire had resounded in the halls; and the voice of the pcople is heard no more. The thistle shook there its lonely head : the moss whistled to the wind. The... | |
| Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...long at least as I am a partner in it." 458 459 THE RUINS OF ANCIENT CITIES.— No. II. " I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The...voice of the people is heard no more ; the stream ofClutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls ; the thistle shook there its lonely head,... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...brighten, and the ocean roll its white waves in light. [Detolation of Balclvtha.] I hare Been the walla ds, And eke with all his might. ! FROH 1780 CYCLOPAEDIA OF TILL THE PRESENT IIMÍX Toice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Glut ha was removed from its place by the fall... | |
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