I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire bad 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... The Poems of Ossian - Page 2491810Full view - About this book
| Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...delight of heroes of old. I have seen the walls of Baiclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls ; and the voice of the people...shook, there, its lonely head : the moss whistled in the wind. The fos looked out from the windows ; the rank grass of the wall waved round his head.... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...Isaiah, where the prophet foretells the destruction of Babylon. MACPUERSOÎÎ, Istedit. The fire had resounded in the halls: and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Cliitha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook, there, its lonely head... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...Balclutha in Carthon. " 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 " ot'Clutha was removed from its place by the fall w " the walls. The thistle shook there its lonelvhtad:... | |
| 1805 - 538 pages
...nettles I • " I have leen the walls of Balclutha, but they were deli.late. The fire h»d n ..m il ii in the halls; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The thillle (book, there, its lonely head) the mois whittled to the wind. The fox looked out from the window,... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1805 - 280 pages
..." had refounded within the halls ; and the voice o£ " the people is now heard no more. The ftream of " Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of *' the walls ; the thiftle fhook. there its lonely head ; " the mofs whittled to the wind. The fox looked *' out of the... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...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 th o fall of " the walls ; the thistle shook there its lonely head; " the moss whistled tfl 'the wind.... | |
| Hugh Blair - English literature - 1811 - 400 pages
...they w«re 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...walls; the thistle shook there its " lonely head; the mass whistled to the wimd. The " fox looked out at the window; the rank grass " waved round his head.... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 716 pages
...of colours in a picture. " I have seen the walls of Bulclutha, but they are desolate; the flames had resounded in the halls, and the voice of the people is heard no more; the stream of Cutha was removed from its place by the full of the walls; the thistle shoots there its lowly head:... | |
| Missions - 1847 - 760 pages
..." I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The flames had resounded in the hall, and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha is removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook its lonely head. The moss whistled... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 300 pages
...they were desolate. The fire had' resounded within the halts'; arid the voice of the people is now heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place by the tall ot the Walls ; the thistle shook there its lonely heqd ; the moss whistled to the wind. " The... | |
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