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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... wind , a lonely pile exalts its head , long shaken by the storms of the north . To this fled Sigurd , fierce in fight , from Harold the leader of armies , when fate had brightened his spear with renown : when he conquered in that rude ...
... wind , a lonely pile exalts its head , long shaken by the storms of the north . To this fled Sigurd , fierce in fight , from Harold the leader of armies , when fate had brightened his spear with renown : when he conquered in that rude ...
Page 44
... wind ; they bend their airy bows ; and pursue deer formed of clouds . The ghosts of departed bards continue to sing ... winds of the night roared around . Many were his words to Oscar.- He slowly vanished , like a mist that melts on the ...
... wind ; they bend their airy bows ; and pursue deer formed of clouds . The ghosts of departed bards continue to sing ... winds of the night roared around . Many were his words to Oscar.- He slowly vanished , like a mist that melts on the ...
Page 45
... wind ; and faint and gay mythology , like Homer's , would light gleams over the heath . The ghosts of have been perfectly unsuitable to the sub- Ardven pass through the beam ; and show jects on which Ossian's genius was employed . their ...
... wind ; and faint and gay mythology , like Homer's , would light gleams over the heath . The ghosts of have been perfectly unsuitable to the sub- Ardven pass through the beam ; and show jects on which Ossian's genius was employed . their ...
Page 51
... wind . The fox looked out savageness ; even their women are bloody from the windows ; the rank grass of the and ... winds ; they are wont to trace my course . the conflagration of his city affected him We rejoiced three days above the ...
... wind . The fox looked out savageness ; even their women are bloody from the windows ; the rank grass of the and ... winds ; they are wont to trace my course . the conflagration of his city affected him We rejoiced three days above the ...
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... wind of the vale . ' A ghost , slowly vanishing , to ' mist that melts by degrees on the sunny hill . ' Cairbar , after his treacherous assassination of Oscar , is compared to a pestilential fog . ' I love a foe like Cathmor , ' says ...
... wind of the vale . ' A ghost , slowly vanishing , to ' mist that melts by degrees on the sunny hill . ' Cairbar , after his treacherous assassination of Oscar , is compared to a pestilential fog . ' I love a foe like Cathmor , ' says ...
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