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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... rolled away all my bliss . Dim and faded are my eyes ; thin - strewed with hairs my head . Weak is that nervous arm , once the terror of foes . Scarce can I grasp my staff , the prop of my trembling limbs . Lead me to yonder craggy ...
... rolled away all my bliss . Dim and faded are my eyes ; thin - strewed with hairs my head . Weak is that nervous arm , once the terror of foes . Scarce can I grasp my staff , the prop of my trembling limbs . Lead me to yonder craggy ...
Page 31
... rolled away , like mis by the rushing breath of the tempest . " Sedate I rose , for I despised the boaster's threats . The fair one's eye followed my departure . I heard a smothered sigh burst from her breast . The horn's harsh sound ...
... rolled away , like mis by the rushing breath of the tempest . " Sedate I rose , for I despised the boaster's threats . The fair one's eye followed my departure . I heard a smothered sigh burst from her breast . The horn's harsh sound ...
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... rolled his deep - sunk eye . His shaggy brows stood erect . His face was contracted with scorn . Thrice his spear pierced my buckler . Thrice his sword struck on my helm . Swift flashes gleamed from our circling blades . The pride of my ...
... rolled his deep - sunk eye . His shaggy brows stood erect . His face was contracted with scorn . Thrice his spear pierced my buckler . Thrice his sword struck on my helm . Swift flashes gleamed from our circling blades . The pride of my ...
Page 83
... rolled away . " Oscar rose in wrath , and his father gravely desired him to spend his rage on his enemies , which he did to so good purpose , that he singly routed a whole wing of their army . The confederate kings advanced ...
... rolled away . " Oscar rose in wrath , and his father gravely desired him to spend his rage on his enemies , which he did to so good purpose , that he singly routed a whole wing of their army . The confederate kings advanced ...
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... rolled into himself , he rose upon the wind ; " are full of the most amazing and terrible majesty . I know no passage more sublime in the writings of any unin spired author . The fiction is calculated to aggrandizo the hero ; which it ...
... rolled into himself , he rose upon the wind ; " are full of the most amazing and terrible majesty . I know no passage more sublime in the writings of any unin spired author . The fiction is calculated to aggrandizo the hero ; which it ...
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