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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... blood . An unusual weight op- pressed my breast . I stood , darkened in my place . The image of the maid wandered over my troubled soul . The sprightly harp's melodious voice arose from the string of the bards . My soul melted away in ...
... blood . An unusual weight op- pressed my breast . I stood , darkened in my place . The image of the maid wandered over my troubled soul . The sprightly harp's melodious voice arose from the string of the bards . My soul melted away in ...
Page 32
... Blood gushed from his panting breast . Tears flowed streaming from mine eyes . I stretched forth my hand to the chief . I proffered gentle words of peace . Faintly he seized my hand . " Stranger , " he said , " I willingly die , for my ...
... Blood gushed from his panting breast . Tears flowed streaming from mine eyes . I stretched forth my hand to the chief . I proffered gentle words of peace . Faintly he seized my hand . " Stranger , " he said , " I willingly die , for my ...
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... fell in blood , or rose in terror on the waves of the main . Darkly sat the gray - haired chief ; The Gaelic name of Scandinavia , or Scandinia The mountains of Sevo yet sorrow dwelt not in his soul . But when 40 PREFACE .
... fell in blood , or rose in terror on the waves of the main . Darkly sat the gray - haired chief ; The Gaelic name of Scandinavia , or Scandinia The mountains of Sevo yet sorrow dwelt not in his soul . But when 40 PREFACE .
Page 55
... that Garcilasso composed his account of the Incas of Peru . The Peruvians ad lost all other monuments of their history , and it was from ancient poems , which his mo- ther , a princess of the blood of the Incas THE ERA OF OSSIAN . 33.
... that Garcilasso composed his account of the Incas of Peru . The Peruvians ad lost all other monuments of their history , and it was from ancient poems , which his mo- ther , a princess of the blood of the Incas THE ERA OF OSSIAN . 33.
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... blood of the Incas , taught him in his youth , that he collected the materials of his history . If other nations , then , that had often been overrun by enemies , and hath sent abroad and received colonies , could for many ages preserve ...
... blood of the Incas , taught him in his youth , that he collected the materials of his history . If other nations , then , that had often been overrun by enemies , and hath sent abroad and received colonies , could for many ages preserve ...
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