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... side to side , and their tall oaks meet one another on high . Then they fall together with all their rocks and trees . ' ' But had a blind bard , or any other bard , presumed to utter such a rhapsody of bombast in the hall of shells ...
... side to side , and their tall oaks meet one another on high . Then they fall together with all their rocks and trees . ' ' But had a blind bard , or any other bard , presumed to utter such a rhapsody of bombast in the hall of shells ...
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... side of the believ ers in Ossian . His judgment is a tower of strength , See the preface , p . vi . to xii . and p . 146 , of his Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with those of the Animal World . † Such as the silence ...
... side of the believ ers in Ossian . His judgment is a tower of strength , See the preface , p . vi . to xii . and p . 146 , of his Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with those of the Animal World . † Such as the silence ...
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... side in the trembling wave . My soul was full of my father's words . A thousand thoughts divided my wavering mind . Soon as the early beam of morn appeared , we saw the green - skirted sides of Erin advan . cing in the bosom of the sea ...
... side in the trembling wave . My soul was full of my father's words . A thousand thoughts divided my wavering mind . Soon as the early beam of morn appeared , we saw the green - skirted sides of Erin advan . cing in the bosom of the sea ...
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... side . forth flew his sword from its place : he wounded Harold in all the winds . One daughter , and only one , but bright in form and mild of soul , the last beam of the setting line , remained to Sigurd of all his race . His son , in ...
... side . forth flew his sword from its place : he wounded Harold in all the winds . One daughter , and only one , but bright in form and mild of soul , the last beam of the setting line , remained to Sigurd of all his race . His son , in ...
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... side A thousand torrents , gleaming as they glide , Unite below , and , pouring through the plain , Hurry the troubled Torno to the main . Gray , on the bank , remote from human kind , By aged pines half shelter'd from the wind , A ...
... side A thousand torrents , gleaming as they glide , Unite below , and , pouring through the plain , Hurry the troubled Torno to the main . Gray , on the bank , remote from human kind , By aged pines half shelter'd from the wind , A ...
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