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James Macpherson. Knot Stalker THE POEMS OF OSSIAN WEISE LS EDINBURGH . Stalker POEMS. Alpin , thou Son of song , why alone on the lent hill . PUBLISHED BY THOMAS NELSON .
James Macpherson. Knot Stalker THE POEMS OF OSSIAN WEISE LS EDINBURGH . Stalker POEMS. Alpin , thou Son of song , why alone on the lent hill . PUBLISHED BY THOMAS NELSON .
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... song . A mighty blaze is kindled in my soul . I hear a power- ful voice . It says , Seize thy beam of glory , O bard for thou shalt soon depart . Soon shall the light of song be faded . Soon thy tuneful voice forgotten .'- ' Yes , I ...
... song . A mighty blaze is kindled in my soul . I hear a power- ful voice . It says , Seize thy beam of glory , O bard for thou shalt soon depart . Soon shall the light of song be faded . Soon thy tuneful voice forgotten .'- ' Yes , I ...
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... Song of despair : ' The dreary night - owl screams in the solitary retreat of his mouldering ivy - covered tower , ' p . 163. Taken from the Persian poet quoted by Gibbon : The owl hath sung her watch song in the towers of Afrasiab ...
... Song of despair : ' The dreary night - owl screams in the solitary retreat of his mouldering ivy - covered tower , ' p . 163. Taken from the Persian poet quoted by Gibbon : The owl hath sung her watch song in the towers of Afrasiab ...
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... song has been found coeval with society among the most barbarous nations . The only subjects which could prompt men ... songs or poems , could take such hold of the imagination and memory , as to be preserved by oral tradition , and ...
... song has been found coeval with society among the most barbarous nations . The only subjects which could prompt men ... songs or poems , could take such hold of the imagination and memory , as to be preserved by oral tradition , and ...
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... songs . Their poets were distinguished by the title of Scal- ders , and their songs were termed Vyses . Saxo Grammaticus , a Danish historian of consider- able note , who flourished in the thirteenth cen- tury , informs us , that very ...
... songs . Their poets were distinguished by the title of Scal- ders , and their songs were termed Vyses . Saxo Grammaticus , a Danish historian of consider- able note , who flourished in the thirteenth cen- tury , informs us , that very ...
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