tober-na-vuolich

Updated: May 11, 2025

To settle down to the old humdrum round of Civil Service promotion seemed to my father impossible. This revolt of his, and its effect upon his friends, of whom the most intimate was Arthur Clough, has left its mark on Clough's poem, the "Vacation Pastoral," which he called "The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich," or, as it runs in my father's old battered copy which lies before me, "Tober-na-Fuosich."

Mrs. Humphry Ward - A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1

In the same year he pub. his poem, The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, written in hexameters. After travelling on the Continent for a year, he was in 1849 appointed Warden of Univ. Hall, London. In 1849 appeared Amours de Voyage, a rhymed novelette, and the more serious work, Dipsychus. In 1854 he was appointed an examiner in the Education Office, and married.

John W. (John William) Cousin - A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

We that is, the four members of our Oxford reading party were bathing in a deep pool in many-terraced Tees, and I was seated on a rock's edge, drying in the September sunshine, and quoting from Clough's 'Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich': 'How to the element offering their bodies, down shooting the fall, They mingled themselves with the flood and the force of imperious water,

Howard Pease - Border Ghost Stories