 | Early English newspapers - 1832 - 874 pages
...Romans, now sunk into poverty and decay, " so that the traveller is induced to exclaim with Ossian, ' I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate.'" The entrances to this city are by twenty-five gates, on some of which the initials CCAA "ColoniaClaudia... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 378 pages
...strong 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... | |
 | W. Massie - England - 1833 - 228 pages
...is the most vivid, short description of a scene of desolation, that is to be found in any author. " I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate ; the foe had resounded in the hall, and the voice of the revel is heard no more. The stream of Cluthawas... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...painting to 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... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1838 - 338 pages
...it. The following picture of desolation, by Osslan, is conceived with 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 more. The stream of Clutha... | |
 | Edmund Flagg - Illinois - 1838 - 258 pages
...his heels, and, like a mushroom, he'll vegetate on any soil ! La Prairie du Rocker, 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...strong 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... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1840 - 314 pages
...it. The following picture of desolation, by Ossian, is conceived with 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | London univ, King's coll - 1842 - 686 pages
...let us not 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... | |
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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... 
