 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1838 - 372 Seiten
...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...the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out of the window ; the rank grass waived round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina ; silence is... | |
 | Edmund Flagg - 1838 - 292 Seiten
...! La Prairie du Rocher, III. XXXVIII. " I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The thistle shook there its lonely head : the moss...the windows ; the rank grass of the wall waved round his head." — OSSIAN. " We do love these ancient ruins : We never tread upon them but we set Our foot... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 338 Seiten
...halls, and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its course by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled in the wind. The fox looked out from the window, and the rank grass of the wall waved round his head.... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 Seiten
...desolate. — The flame 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...whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows : arid the rank grass of the wall waved around his head. Desolate is the dwelling of Morna : silence... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1840 - 314 Seiten
...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 there its lonely head ; the moss whistled in the wind. The fox looked out from the window, and the rank grass of the wall waved round his head.... | |
 | 1841 - 806 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1841 - 372 Seiten
...at the other, and disappeared in the rubbish. This reminded me of Ossian's beautiful description : ' The thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the gale ; tKe fox looked out from the windows ; the rank grass waved round his head.' " There are twelve... | |
 | 1842 - 514 Seiten
...they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The thistle shook there its lonely head : the moss...waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moiua; silence is in the house of her fathers." OSSIAN'S Carthon. THERE is a feeling of no common interest... | |
 | William Wood (of Eyam.) - 1842 - 176 Seiten
...doubt; and in the following sublime language of Ossian, it may be said:— " There the thistle shook its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The...the rank grass of the wall waved round its head." The winter which succeeded the cessation of the pestilence was, by the very few who were left, wholly... | |
 | Charles Maurice Davies - 1842 - 856 Seiten
...inhabitant. The fiction of the poet became true and sad history. u The voice of the people was heard no more. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its headV Wild beasts made their dens of the deserted dwellings ; wolves nursed their young on the forsaken... | |
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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... 
