The Poems of Ossian: To which are Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse and Dissertations on the Aera and Poems of OssianFleischer, 1834 - 196 pages |
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Page 14
... fallen king with renown . Her arm was white like Gormal's snow ; her bosom whiter than the foam of the main , when roll the waves beneath the wrath of the winds . Like two stars were her radiant eyes , like two stars that rise on the ...
... fallen king with renown . Her arm was white like Gormal's snow ; her bosom whiter than the foam of the main , when roll the waves beneath the wrath of the winds . Like two stars were her radiant eyes , like two stars that rise on the ...
Page 30
... fallen , from several concurring circumstances , into the last degree of ignorance and barbarism . The Irish , who , for some ages before the conquest , had pos- sessed a competent share of that kind of learning which then prevailed in ...
... fallen , from several concurring circumstances , into the last degree of ignorance and barbarism . The Irish , who , for some ages before the conquest , had pos- sessed a competent share of that kind of learning which then prevailed in ...
Page 42
... fallen Patroclus , with the most but , on the contrary , the principal characters cruel taunts , and telling him , when he lies are not only clearly distinguished , but some- in the agony of death , that Achilles cannot times artfully ...
... fallen Patroclus , with the most but , on the contrary , the principal characters cruel taunts , and telling him , when he lies are not only clearly distinguished , but some- in the agony of death , that Achilles cannot times artfully ...
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... fallen . He is imperious in his counsels , and factious when they are not followed . He is unrelenting in all his schemes of revenge , even to the length of denying the funeral song to the dead ; which , from the injury thereby done to ...
... fallen . He is imperious in his counsels , and factious when they are not followed . He is unrelenting in all his schemes of revenge , even to the length of denying the funeral song to the dead ; which , from the injury thereby done to ...
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... fallen in the first of my fields ; fallen without renown . Let thy voice alone send joy to my flying soul . Why should the bard know where dwells the early - fallen Fillan ? ' He who , after tracing the circum- stances of this story ...
... fallen in the first of my fields ; fallen without renown . Let thy voice alone send joy to my flying soul . Why should the bard know where dwells the early - fallen Fillan ? ' He who , after tracing the circum- stances of this story ...
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arms arose art thou Atha Balclutha bards battle beam behold bend blast blood blue streams breast Cairbar Calmar car-borne Carril Carthon Cathmor cave chief cloud Clutha Comala Cona Connal Cormac Cromla Cuthullin dark daughter death distant dost thou dwelling echoing Erin eyes fame fathers feast feeble fell field Fillan Fingal fled Foldath friends Gaul ghosts gleaming gray grief hair hall hand harp hear heard heath heaven heroes hill Iliad Ireland king of Morven king of swords Lego lift light Lochlin maid midst mighty mist moon Morni mossy mournful Nathos night Oscar Ossian poems poet poetry race raised renown rise roar rock rolled rose rushed Selma shield side sigh silent song sons soul sound spear Starno steel steps storm strangers stream Swaran sword tears Temora thee thou art tomb trembling Trenmor Ullin Uthal vale voice warriors waves wind youth