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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Page 17
... feeble , our years sliding down from the skies , quickly travelling together to their end . Rejoice then , O sun ! while thou art strong , O king ! in thy youth . Dark and unpleasant is old age , like the vain and feeble light of the ...
... feeble , our years sliding down from the skies , quickly travelling together to their end . Rejoice then , O sun ! while thou art strong , O king ! in thy youth . Dark and unpleasant is old age , like the vain and feeble light of the ...
Page 58
... feeble and weak in mind . An unsettled state , and those convulsions which attend it , is the proper field for an exalted character , and the exertion of great parts . Merit there rises always su- perior ; no fortuitous event can raise ...
... feeble and weak in mind . An unsettled state , and those convulsions which attend it , is the proper field for an exalted character , and the exertion of great parts . Merit there rises always su- perior ; no fortuitous event can raise ...
Page 120
... He is the universal protector of the dis- tressed ; " None ever went sad from Fingal . " — " O , Oscar ! bend the strong in arms ; but spare the feeble hand . Be thou a stream of mighty tides against 120 CRITICAL DISSERTATION.
... He is the universal protector of the dis- tressed ; " None ever went sad from Fingal . " — " O , Oscar ! bend the strong in arms ; but spare the feeble hand . Be thou a stream of mighty tides against 120 CRITICAL DISSERTATION.
Page 124
... feeble voice . " All this presents to us much the same set of ideas concerning spirits , as we find in the eleventh book of the Odyssey , where Ulysses visits the regions of the dead ; and in the twenty - third book of the Lad , the ...
... feeble voice . " All this presents to us much the same set of ideas concerning spirits , as we find in the eleventh book of the Odyssey , where Ulysses visits the regions of the dead ; and in the twenty - third book of the Lad , the ...
Page 125
... feeble voice , like the gale of the reedy Lego . - My ghost , O Connal ! is on my native hills ; but my corse is on the sands of Ulla . Thou shalt never talk with Crugal , or find his lone steps in the heath . I am light as the blast of ...
... feeble voice , like the gale of the reedy Lego . - My ghost , O Connal ! is on my native hills ; but my corse is on the sands of Ulla . Thou shalt never talk with Crugal , or find his lone steps in the heath . I am light as the blast of ...
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arms arose art thou Atha Balclutha bards battle beam behold bend blast blood blue streams breast Cairbar Calmar car-borne Carril Carthon Cathmor cave chief cloud Clutha Comala Cona Connal Cormac Cromla Cuthullin dark daughter death distant dost thou dwelling echoing Erin eyes fall fame fathers feast feeble fell field Fillan Fingal fled Foldath friends Gaul ghosts gleaming gray grief hair hall hand harp hear heard heath heaven heroes hill Iliad Ireland king of Morven king of swords Lego lift light Lochlin maid midst mighty mist moon Morni mossy mournful Nathos night Oscar Ossian poems poet poetry race raised renown rise roar rock rolled rose rushed Selma shield side sigh silent song sons soul sound spear Starno steel steps stood storm strangers stream Swaran sword tears Temora thee tomb Trenmor Ullin Uthal vale voice warriors waves wind youth