| James Grant - 1846 - 372 pages
...him : 'tis now so dark, that I cannot see where they are." CHAPTER III. ANOTHER NIGHT AT MERIDA. " The fire had resounded in the halls; and the voice of the people is heard no more Desolate is the dwelling of Moina : silence is in the house of her fathers." Ossian's Poems, — Carthon.... | |
| John Glen - Dumbarton (Scotland) - 1847 - 164 pages
...century ; the fall of which is thus beautifully described by Carthon, its then owner. " I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shakes there its lonely head. The fox looks out from the window ; the rank grass of the walls wave... | |
| Bards and bardism - 1847 - 398 pages
...rest with the fair of Morven, the sun-beams of other days, the delight of heroes of old. I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The...Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the vails. The thistle shook there its lonely head : the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out... | |
| Robert Turnbull - Scotland - 1847 - 396 pages
...the Latin vallum, a wall. " 1 have seen the walls of Balclutha," sings Ossian, in the poem of'Carron, "but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in...voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of the Clutha (Clyde) was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook here its... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1847 - 516 pages
...shake themselves to pieces. I have seen the walls of Balelutha, 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 wus removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook 'here its lonely head : the... | |
| Bards and bardism - 1847 - 400 pages
...rest with the fair of Morven, the sun-beams of other days, the delight of heroes of old. I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded ip the halls; and the voice of the people is heard no more. [The stream of Clutha was removed from... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1849 - 650 pages
...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 from its place, by the fali of the walls; the thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox... | |
| Charles Mackie - Castles - 1850 - 556 pages
...Nomenclature, by Christopher Irvin, 1819. 298 DUMBARTON A ROMAN STATION— SMOLLETT'S ACCOUNT OF IT. has resounded in the halls, and the voice of the people...from its place by the fall of the 'walls. The thistle shakes there its lonely head. The fox looks out from the window, the rank grass of the walls waves... | |
| James Grant - Great Britain - 1850 - 522 pages
...'tis now so dark, that I cannot see where they CHAPTER XX. ANOTHER NIGHT AT M1CUIDA. " The fire bad resounded in the halls ; and the voice of the people is heard no more Desolate is the dwelling of Moina : silence is in the house of her fathers."— Oman's Poems,— Car... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...description of the young prince Cormac in the same book, and the ruins of Balclutha in Cartho. I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The...voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clntha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head... | |
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