 | Samuel Wilderspin - 1832 - 296 páginas
...harmless, and has since been changed into Dumbarton Castle ! It is supposed by some to be the Balclutha of Ossian : — " 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 the... | |
 | 1832 - 628 páginas
...of the 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... | |
 | James Brown (editor, of Elgin.) - 1873 - 406 páginas
...of a ruin — a castle once stately and beautiful, but now deserted and desolate ? If so, hearken to Ossian : — "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... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - 1896 - 492 páginas
...dance,' ' Dancing Here.' " And how impressive the images of dreariness and ruin in the following, from Ossian ! — " 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... | |
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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... 