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Page 23
... bards are scrupulously exact ; so that an extravagant hyperbole , in a matter of this kind , is sufficient to mark ... bard , could say , A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE . 23.
... bards are scrupulously exact ; so that an extravagant hyperbole , in a matter of this kind , is sufficient to mark ... bard , could say , A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE . 23.
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... bards . My soul melted away in the sounds , for my heart , like a stream , flowed gently away in song . Murmurs soon broke upon our joy . Half - unsheathed dag- gers gleamed . Many a voice was heard abrupt . Shall the son of the ...
... bards . My soul melted away in the sounds , for my heart , like a stream , flowed gently away in song . Murmurs soon broke upon our joy . Half - unsheathed dag- gers gleamed . Many a voice was heard abrupt . Shall the son of the ...
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... Bards prepare my tomb . Lay me by the fair Evir - allen . When the revolving years bring back the mild season of spring to our hills , sing the praise of Cona's bard , of Ossian , the friend of the distressed . The difference , in many ...
... Bards prepare my tomb . Lay me by the fair Evir - allen . When the revolving years bring back the mild season of spring to our hills , sing the praise of Cona's bard , of Ossian , the friend of the distressed . The difference , in many ...
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... bards , which , by the vicissitude of human affairs , are long since lost . Their ancient language is the only monument that re- mains of them ; and the traces of it being found in places so widely distant from each other , serves only ...
... bards , which , by the vicissitude of human affairs , are long since lost . Their ancient language is the only monument that re- mains of them ; and the traces of it being found in places so widely distant from each other , serves only ...
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... bards . That race of men carried their notions of martial ho- nour to an extravagant pitch . Any aid given their heroes in battle , was thought to dero- gate from their fame ; and the bards immedi- ately transferred the glory of the ...
... bards . That race of men carried their notions of martial ho- nour to an extravagant pitch . Any aid given their heroes in battle , was thought to dero- gate from their fame ; and the bards immedi- ately transferred the glory of the ...
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