 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 390 pages
...* Moina, toft in temper and person. As rushes a stream of foam from the dark shady deep of Cromla; when the thunder is travelling above, and dark-brown...so terrible rushed on the sons of Erin. The chief like a whale of ocean, whom all his billows pursue, poured valour forth, as a stream, rolling his might... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...down the hills, when lower aloft the wild tempests of father Jove." MACPHERSOX'S Homer, i. 333. Or, " when the thunder is travelling above, and dark-brown night sits on half the hill." fierce, so vast, so terrible, rushed on the sons of Erin. The chief, like a whale of ocean, whom all... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...shady steep of Cromla, when the thunder is rolling above, and dark-brown night rests on half the hill ; so fierce, so vast, so terrible, rushed on the sons of Erin. The chief, like a whale of ocean, whom all his billows follow, poured valour forth as a stream, rolling his might... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 364 pages
...darkens round the beams of my steel !" As rushes a stream of foam from the dark shady steep of Cromla; when the thunder is travelling above, and dark-brown...so terrible rushed on the sons of Erin. The chief like a whale of ocean, whom all his billows pursue, poured valour forth, as a stream, rolling his might... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1806 - 254 pages
...of lofty Cromla, While thunder moves along the hills, 315 MACPHERSON'S TRANSLATION. And dark brown night sits on half the hill. Through the breaches...faces of ghosts. So fierce, so vast, so terrible, 32ORushed on the sons of Erin. The chief, like a whale of ocean> Whom all his billows pursue, Poured... | |
 | 1807 - 536 pages
...thunder moves along the hills, 315 • White hand. f The battle. MACPHERSON'S TRANSLATION. And dark brown night sits on half the hill. Through the breaches...faces of ghosts. So fierce, so vast, so terrible, 320 Rushed on the sons of Erin. The chief, like a whale of ocean, Whom all his billows pursue, Poured... | |
 | Ossian - 1807 - 546 pages
...thunder moves along the hills, 315 • White hand. f The battle. MACPHERSON'S TRANSLATION. And dark brown night sits on half the hill. Through the breaches...faces of ghosts. So fierce, so vast, so terrible, 320 Rushed on the sons of Erin. The chief, like a whale of ocean, Whom all his billows pursue, Poured... | |
 | 1810 - 378 pages
...when the thunder is travelling above, and dark-brown night sits on half the hill. Through the breaehes of the tempest look forth the dim faces of ghosts....vast, so terrible rushed on the sons of Erin. The ehief, like a whale of oeean, whom all his hillows pursue, poured valour forth, as a stream, rolling... | |
 | J. L. Murphy - 1838 - 260 pages
...din of arms is past.' " * * * * # " As rushes a stream of foam from the dark shady deep of Cromla! when the thunder is travelling above, and dark-brown...terrible rushed on the sons of Erin." ***** " The rest lay in the heath of the deer, and slept beneath the dusky wind. The ghosts of the lately dead... | |
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As rushes a stream of foam from the dark shady deep of Cromla; when the thunder is travelling above, and dark-brown night sits on half the hill. Through the breaches of the tempest look forth the dim faces of ghosts. 
