 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
 | Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 528 pages
...delight of the heroes of old. I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they are desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls: and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha is removed from its place, by the fall of the 105 walls. The thistle shook, there, its lonely head:... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1909 - 444 pages
...of the Irish hero Fingal. " 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." Carthon is one of a collection of "supposed translations" published 1760-1763 by James Macpherson,... | |
 | Joseph Pearson Farley - Hudson River - 1910 - 310 pages
...Ossian I may say : ' I have seen the walls up Bachlutha, but they are desolate. The fira had sounded in the halls, and the voice of the people is heard no more. The thistle shook there its lonely head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house of... | |
 | Reinhard Haferkorn - Architecture, Gothic - 1924 - 230 pages
...Musik gesetjt worden ist: ., I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls: and the voice of the people...place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook, Ihere, its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank... | |
 | Reinhard Haferkorn - Architecture, Gothic - 1924 - 230 pages
...Musik gesetjt worden ist: „ I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls: and the voice of the people...removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thlstle shook, there, its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows,... | |
 | Dafydd Moore - Celts in literature - 2004 - 612 pages
...heroes of old. — I have feen the walls * of Balclutha, but they were defolate. The fire had refounded in the halls : and the voice of the people is heard no more. The ftream of Clutha was removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. — The thiftle fhook, there,... | |
 | Theology - 1828 - 684 pages
...As tlie following: — "I have seen the wallsof Balclu tha, 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 is removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head : the... | |
 | John M. Leighton - 1840 - 422 pages
...the walls of Balclutha," says Fingal, in the poem of Carthon, " but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls ; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of the Clutha was removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook here its lonely... | |
 | 1820 - 618 pages
...in his poem of Carthou. " 1 nave seen the wnlls of Balclutba, but they were desolate. The lire had resounded in the halls, and 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904 - 606 pages
...aii — and verdure on the ground. — f I. [Compare "The walls of Balclutha were desolated. . . . The stream of Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The fox looked out from the windows " (Ossian's Balclutha). " The dreary night-owl screams in the solitary... | |
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