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 29
... silent , cold Indifference , like a brazen shield , covered my frozen heart . Fingal saw , he smiled , and mildly spoke : My son , the down of youth grows on thy cheek . Thy arm has wielded the spear of war . Foes have felt thy force ...
... silent , cold Indifference , like a brazen shield , covered my frozen heart . Fingal saw , he smiled , and mildly spoke : My son , the down of youth grows on thy cheek . Thy arm has wielded the spear of war . Foes have felt thy force ...
Page 127
... Silent he stood on that bank ; his robe of mist flew on the wind . I could behold his tears . An aged man he seemed , and full of thought . " The ghosts of strangers mingle not with those of the natives . " She is seen : but not like ...
... Silent he stood on that bank ; his robe of mist flew on the wind . I could behold his tears . An aged man he seemed , and full of thought . " The ghosts of strangers mingle not with those of the natives . " She is seen : but not like ...
Page 128
... silent joy to rejoin the rest of the shades . " " It is a great advantage of Ossian's mythology , that it is not local and temporary , like that of most other ancient poets ; which of course is apt to seem ridicu lous , after the ...
... silent joy to rejoin the rest of the shades . " " It is a great advantage of Ossian's mythology , that it is not local and temporary , like that of most other ancient poets ; which of course is apt to seem ridicu lous , after the ...
Page 156
... silent and dark ; " or , in a different form still , is like " the watery beam of the moon , when it rushes from between two clouds , and the midnight shower is on the field . " A very opposite use is made of the moon ir the description ...
... silent and dark ; " or , in a different form still , is like " the watery beam of the moon , when it rushes from between two clouds , and the midnight shower is on the field . " A very opposite use is made of the moon ir the description ...
Page 157
... silent vale . The green flowers are filled with dew . The sun returns in its strength , and the mist is gone . " But , for the most part , mist is employ . ed as a similitude of some disagreeable or terrible ob ject . " The soul of ...
... silent vale . The green flowers are filled with dew . The sun returns in its strength , and the mist is gone . " But , for the most part , mist is employ . ed as a similitude of some disagreeable or terrible ob ject . " The soul 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