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 40
... roar along , they bear the Torno , in foam , to the main . Gray on the bank , and far from men , half - covered , by ancient pines , from the wind , a lonely pile exalts ts head , long shaken by the storms of the north . To his fled ...
... roar along , they bear the Torno , in foam , to the main . Gray on the bank , and far from men , half - covered , by ancient pines , from the wind , a lonely pile exalts ts head , long shaken by the storms of the north . To his fled ...
Page 95
... roar of arms . It appears to me , of truth , that we are led by the Fates . Seldom can any overcome the appointment of destiny . Little did I foresee that Ella was to have my life in his hands , in that day when fainting I concealed my ...
... roar of arms . It appears to me , of truth , that we are led by the Fates . Seldom can any overcome the appointment of destiny . Little did I foresee that Ella was to have my life in his hands , in that day when fainting I concealed my ...
Page 159
... roar from afar . Such was the terror and the shout of the engaging armies . " In another passage , the poet , much in the manner of Ossian , heaps simile on simile , to express the vastness of the idea with which his ima gination seems ...
... roar from afar . Such was the terror and the shout of the engaging armies . " In another passage , the poet , much in the manner of Ossian , heaps simile on simile , to express the vastness of the idea with which his ima gination seems ...
Page 160
... roar on the plains ; loud , rough , and dark in bat- tle , meet Lochlin and Inisfail . Chief mixed his strokes with chief , and man with man . Steel clanging , sound- ed on steel . Helmets are cleft on high ; blood bursts and smokes ...
... roar on the plains ; loud , rough , and dark in bat- tle , meet Lochlin and Inisfail . Chief mixed his strokes with chief , and man with man . Steel clanging , sound- ed on steel . Helmets are cleft on high ; blood bursts and smokes ...
Page 164
... roar of a thousand storms , and scatters battles from his eyes . He sits on a cloud over Lochlin's seas . His mighty hand is on his sword . The wind lifts his flaming locks . So terrible was Cuthullin in the day of his fame . " Homer's ...
... roar of a thousand storms , and scatters battles from his eyes . He sits on a cloud over Lochlin's seas . His mighty hand is on his sword . The wind lifts his flaming locks . So terrible was Cuthullin in the day of his fame . " Homer's ...
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