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 103
... night . The night scenery is beautiful ; and the author has plainly imitated the style and manner of Ossian ; but he has allowed some images to appear which betray a later period of society . For we meet with windows clapping , the ...
... night . The night scenery is beautiful ; and the author has plainly imitated the style and manner of Ossian ; but he has allowed some images to appear which betray a later period of society . For we meet with windows clapping , the ...
Page 126
... night set on the heath before him . A distant tor- rent faintly roars . Unfrequent blasts rush through aged oaks . The half - enlightened moon sinks dim and red behind her hill . Feeble voices are heard on the heath . Oscar drew his ...
... night set on the heath before him . A distant tor- rent faintly roars . Unfrequent blasts rush through aged oaks . The half - enlightened moon sinks dim and red behind her hill . Feeble voices are heard on the heath . Oscar drew his ...
Page 132
... night as well as of the day . The still , pathetic , and the romantic scenery of several of the night adventures , so remarkably suited to Ossian's genius , occasion a fine diversity in the poem ; and are happily contrasted with the ...
... night as well as of the day . The still , pathetic , and the romantic scenery of several of the night adventures , so remarkably suited to Ossian's genius , occasion a fine diversity in the poem ; and are happily contrasted with the ...
Page 160
... night , when the cloud bursts on Cona , and a thousand ghosts shriek at once on the hollow wind . " Never was an image of more awful sublimity employed to heighten the ter ror of battle . Both poets compare the appearance of an army ap ...
... night , when the cloud bursts on Cona , and a thousand ghosts shriek at once on the hollow wind . " Never was an image of more awful sublimity employed to heighten the ter ror of battle . Both poets compare the appearance of an army ap ...
Page 163
... night , and laid their green heads low . Next day he return- ed ; but they were withered , and the heath was bare . " Malvina's allusion to the same object , in her lamenta- tion over Oscar , is so exquisitely tender , that I cannot ...
... night , and laid their green heads low . Next day he return- ed ; but they were withered , and the heath was bare . " Malvina's allusion to the same object , in her lamenta- tion over Oscar , is so exquisitely tender , that I cannot ...
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