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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... Cuthullin .......... 3 > 3 The Battle of Lora ......... Temora in eight Books ... -Contathland Cuthona ...... Berrathon .. .. 391 393 479 469 92613 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE . As Swift has , with some reason recut SAMB A1 51862 PR3544.
... Cuthullin .......... 3 > 3 The Battle of Lora ......... Temora in eight Books ... -Contathland Cuthona ...... Berrathon .. .. 391 393 479 469 92613 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE . As Swift has , with some reason recut SAMB A1 51862 PR3544.
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... Cuthullin was of so diminutive a size , as to be taken for a child of two years of age by the gigantic Swaran . To illustrate this subject , I shall here ly before the reader the history of some of the Irish poema concerning Fion Mac ...
... Cuthullin was of so diminutive a size , as to be taken for a child of two years of age by the gigantic Swaran . To illustrate this subject , I shall here ly before the reader the history of some of the Irish poema concerning Fion Mac ...
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... indecent description ; the last of which , the Irish translator , no doubt , will choose to leave in the obscurity of the original . In this piece Cuthullin is used with very little ceremony for THE POEMS OF OSSIAN . 81.
... indecent description ; the last of which , the Irish translator , no doubt , will choose to leave in the obscurity of the original . In this piece Cuthullin is used with very little ceremony for THE POEMS OF OSSIAN . 81.
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... Cuthullin is used with very little ceremony for he is oft called the " dog of Tara , " in the county of Meath . This severe title of the redoubtable Cuthul . lin , the most renowned of Irish champions , proceeded from the poet's ...
... Cuthullin is used with very little ceremony for he is oft called the " dog of Tara , " in the county of Meath . This severe title of the redoubtable Cuthul . lin , the most renowned of Irish champions , proceeded from the poet's ...
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... Cuthullin's rashness and bad success ; those difficulties gradually surmounted ; and at last , the work conduct- ed to that happy conclusion which is held essential to epic poetry . Unity is , indeed , observed with greater exactness in ...
... Cuthullin's rashness and bad success ; those difficulties gradually surmounted ; and at last , the work conduct- ed to that happy conclusion which is held essential to epic poetry . Unity is , indeed , observed with greater exactness in ...
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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