The Poems of Ossian: To which are Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse and Dissertation on the Aera and Poems of OssianCrosby, 1862 - 492 pages |
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... bards as remain , and make them rehearse their ancient poems . Let the clergymen then have the translation their hands , and let them write back to you , and inform you , tha they heard such a one , ( naming him , ) living in such a ...
... bards as remain , and make them rehearse their ancient poems . Let the clergymen then have the translation their hands , and let them write back to you , and inform you , tha they heard such a one , ( naming him , ) living in such a ...
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... bards are scrupulously exact ; so that an extravagant hyperbole , in a matter of this kind , is sufficient to mark ... bard , could say , with applause in the eighteenth century , ' Thus have I seen in Cona ; but Cona I behold no more ...
... bards are scrupulously exact ; so that an extravagant hyperbole , in a matter of this kind , is sufficient to mark ... bard , could say , with applause in the eighteenth century , ' Thus have I seen in Cona ; but Cona I behold no more ...
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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 daggers 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 daggers 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... bards , which , by the vicissitude of human affairs , are long since lost . Their ancient language is the only monu- ment that remains 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 monu- ment that remains of them ; and the traces of it being found in places so widely distant from each other , serves only ...
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