 | Charles Feist - 1833 - 304 pages
...quite suppress'd. VICISSITUDE OF HUMAN AFFAIRS. I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they Avere desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls ; and...thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round \ in sun of... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 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...thistle shook there its lonely head; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out at the window; the rank grass waved round his head. Desolate is the... | |
 | W. Massie - England - 1833 - 228 pages
...foe had resounded in the hall, and the voice of the revel is heard no more. The stream of Cluthawas removed from its place by the fall of the walls ;...thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind, the rank grass whistled to the wind ; the fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1837 - 242 pages
...they were desolate. The fire had resounded within the halls; arid the voice of the ped^ pie is now heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from...thistle shook there its lonely head; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out of the window ; the rank grass waved round his head. Desolate is the... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 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...thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out of the window ; the rank grass waived round his head. Desolate is the... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...thou didst them unto me." I have seen the walls of Balcmtha, but they were desolate. — The flame had resounded in the halls ; and the voice of the...thistle shook there its lonely head : the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows : arid the rank grass of the wall waved around his... | |
 | 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
...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...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... | |
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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... 
