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Page 18
... clouds in the east ; or when thou tremblest in the west , at thy dusky aoors in the ocean . Perhaps thou and myself ... cloud on the field , and her gray mist on the sides of the rocks ; a blast from the north on the plain , a traveller ...
... clouds in the east ; or when thou tremblest in the west , at thy dusky aoors in the ocean . Perhaps thou and myself ... cloud on the field , and her gray mist on the sides of the rocks ; a blast from the north on the plain , a traveller ...
Page 54
... cloud of ignorance and barbarism overspread the north of Europe three hundred years ago . The minds of men , addicted to superstition , contracted a narrowness that destroyed genius . According- ly we find the compositions of those ...
... cloud of ignorance and barbarism overspread the north of Europe three hundred years ago . The minds of men , addicted to superstition , contracted a narrowness that destroyed genius . According- ly we find the compositions of those ...
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... cloud of incre- dible fictions . Besides being temperately em- ployed , machinery ought always to have some foundation in popular belief . A poet is by no means at liberty to invent what system of the marvellous he pleases ; he must ...
... cloud of incre- dible fictions . Besides being temperately em- ployed , machinery ought always to have some foundation in popular belief . A poet is by no means at liberty to invent what system of the marvellous he pleases ; he must ...
Page 133
... cloud of death ; it hovers over the plains of Lena . The sons of green Erin shall fall . Remove from the field of ghosts . - Like the darkened moon , he retired in the mist of the whistling blast . ' Several other appearances of spirits ...
... cloud of death ; it hovers over the plains of Lena . The sons of green Erin shall fall . Remove from the field of ghosts . - Like the darkened moon , he retired in the mist of the whistling blast . ' Several other appearances of spirits ...
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... cloud of mine shall rise , my son , upon thy soul of fire . ' Struggling between concern for the fame , and fear for the safety of his son , he withdraws from the sight of the engagement ; and dispatches Ossian in haste to the field ...
... cloud of mine shall rise , my son , upon thy soul of fire . ' Struggling between concern for the fame , and fear for the safety of his son , he withdraws from the sight of the engagement ; and dispatches Ossian in haste to the field ...
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