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 41
... waves beneath the wrath of the winds . Like two stars were her radiant eyes , like two stars that rise on the deep , when dark tumult embroils the night . Pleasant are their beams aloft , as stately they ascend the skies . Nor Odin ...
... waves beneath the wrath of the winds . Like two stars were her radiant eyes , like two stars that rise on the deep , when dark tumult embroils the night . Pleasant are their beams aloft , as stately they ascend the skies . Nor Odin ...
Page 42
... waves below When heaving to the winds . Her radiant eyes Like two bright stars , exulting as they rise , O'er the dark tumult of a stormy night , And gladd'ning heaven with their majestic light . In nought is Odin to the maid unkind ...
... waves below When heaving to the winds . Her radiant eyes Like two bright stars , exulting as they rise , O'er the dark tumult of a stormy night , And gladd'ning heaven with their majestic light . In nought is Odin to the maid unkind ...
Page 81
... waves ! " The testi- mony of this bard is sufficient to confute the idle fic . tions of Keating and O'Flaherty , for , though he is far from being ancient , it is probable he flourished a ful ! century before these historians . He ...
... waves ! " The testi- mony of this bard is sufficient to confute the idle fic . tions of Keating and O'Flaherty , for , though he is far from being ancient , it is probable he flourished a ful ! century before these historians . He ...
Page 95
... waves ; after we had spread a repast for the beasts of prey throughout the Scottish bays . But this makes me always rejoice , that in the halls of our fa . ther Balder [ or Odin ] I know there are seats prepared , where , in a short ...
... waves ; after we had spread a repast for the beasts of prey throughout the Scottish bays . But this makes me always rejoice , that in the halls of our fa . ther Balder [ or Odin ] I know there are seats prepared , where , in a short ...
Page 117
... waves with songs ; and rushed with joy through the foam of the ocean . " So much for the unity and general conduct of the epic action in Fingal . He moved first to- With regard to that property of the subject which Aristotle requires ...
... waves with songs ; and rushed with joy through the foam of the ocean . " So much for the unity and general conduct of the epic action in Fingal . He moved first to- With regard to that property of the subject which Aristotle requires ...
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