 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1831 - 328 pages
...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 head : the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows : and the rank grass of the wall waved round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of Morna :... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1831 - 284 pages
...people is now heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls ; the 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 dwelling of Moina ; silence is... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 pages
...people is now heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place, by the fall of the walls ; the 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 dwelling of Moina ; silence is... | |
 | Samuel Wilderspin - 1832 - 296 pages
...The stream of the Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook here its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows ; the rank grass of the walls waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Morna, silence... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pages
...disappeared in the rubbish. 18. This scene of desolation reminded me of Ossian's beautiful description: "the thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the gale ; the fox looked out from the windows ; the rank grass waved around his head," — and almost... | |
 | Charles Feist - 1833 - 304 pages
...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 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 heaven, shalt fail, if thou shalt fail,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 pages
...people is now heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place, by the fall of the walls; the 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 dwelling of Moina. Silence is in... | |
 | W. Massie - 1833 - 228 pages
...the revel is heard no more. The stream of Cluthawas removed from its place by the fall of the walls ; the 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 of the wall waved... | |
 | John Chetwode Eustace - 1837 - 420 pages
...disappeared in the rubbish. This scene of desolation reminded me of Ossian's beautiful description, " the thistle shook there its lonely head ;the moss whistled to the gale ; the fox looked out from the windows ; the rank grass waved round his head," and almost seemed... | |
 | Edmund Flagg - 1838 - 292 pages
...! 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 whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows ; the rank grass of the wall waved round his head." — OSSIAN. " We do love these ancient... | |
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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... 
