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" I was a lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches round me : but thy death came like a blast from the desert, and laid my green head low : the spring returned with its showers, but no leaf of mine arose. "
The Poems of Ossian - Page 182
1803
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A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With ..., Volume 5

Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 464 pages
...Anc. Chiv. Oscar, is exquisitely tender. " I was a lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar ! with all m$ branches round me. But, thy death came, like a blast from the desart, and laid my green head low. The spring returned with its showers » but, no leaf of mine arose,"...
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The poems of Ossian, &c. containing the poetical works of J ..., Volume 1

Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...my tears descend with the drops of night 7. I was a lovely tree, in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches round me; but thy death came like a blast from the desert, and laid my green head low 8. The spring rcbrenst, preserves the original, to which the translator was afraid to adhere in English....
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The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson. To which are prefixed ..., Volume 1

Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...cannot forbear giving it a place also. " I " was a lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar ! with all " my branches round me. But thy death came like a " blast from the desart, and laid my green head low. " The spring returned with its showers ; but no leaf " of mine...
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The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson. Blair's critical ..., Volume 1

Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...my tears descend with the drops of night. I was a lovely tree, in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches round me ; but thy death came like a blast...green head low. The spring returned with its showers ; no leaf of mine arose ! The virgins saw me silent in the hall ; they touched the harp of joy. The...
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St. Clair; Or, The Heiress of Desmond

Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1812 - 486 pages
...lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches round me ; but thy death came like a blast of the desert, and laid my green head low. The spring returned with its showers, but of me not a leaf sprung *." The written paper alluded to ran as follows : OLIVIA TO HER FATHER. A SHORT...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 pages
...Cresseide.' Troilus and Cresseide, Book iv. * ' I was a lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches round me, but thy death came like a blast from the desert, and laid my green bead low : the spring returned with its showers ; no leaf of mine arose. '---Croma. « Thus in Shakspere...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 2

Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...: my tears descend with the drops of night- I was a lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches round me : but thy death came like a blast...returned with its showers, but no leaf of mine arose. Fingal. I am aware that the term metaphor has been used in a more extensive sense than I give it; but...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 86, Part 2; Volume 120

Early English newspapers - 1816 - 832 pages
...passage of Malvina's lamentation lor Oscar: — ' I was a lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches - round me; but thy death came like a blast from the desert, and laid my green bead low; tba spring returned with its showers, but no green leaf of mine arose." Again, where old...
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Elements of criticism [by H. Home].

Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...spring; in war, the mountain-storm. Take now my hand in friendship, thqu noble king of Morven. Fingal. my green head low: the spring returned with its showers, but no leaf of mine arose. Fingal. I am aware that the term metaphor has been used in a more extensive sense than I give it ;...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 5

1823 - 626 pages
...is inconsolable for the death of Oscar: — "I was a lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches round me; but thy death came, like a blast...low ; the spring returned, with its showers, but no green leaf of mine arose." In a play of Deckar's, top, where Orlando is asked by Hippolito if he had...
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