| Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 282 pages
...Strina-dona! If on the heath she moved, her breaft was whiter than the down of Cana (i) ; if on the fea-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling ocean. Her eyes were two ftars of light; hei face was heaven's bow in showers ; her dark hair flowed round it, like the frreaming... | |
| Bards and bardism - 1803 - 350 pages
...high-bosomed Strina-dona ! If on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana ;* if on the sea-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling...bow in showers. Her dark hair flowed round it, like the streaming clouds. Thou wert the dweller of souls, white-handed Strina-dona ! ft Colgorm came, in... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...high-bosomed Strina-dona '. If on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Canať ; if on the sea-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling...bow in showers ; her dark hair flowed round it, like the streaming clouds. Thou wert the dweller of souls white-handed Strinadona ! Col-gorm came in his... | |
| James Macpherson - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1805 - 336 pages
...a certain kind of grass, which growi plentiful in the heathy morasses of the north. Its stalk beat shore, than the foam of the rolling ocean. Her eyes...bow in showers. Her dark hair flowed round it, like the streaming clouds. Thou wert the dweller of souls, white-handed Strinadona ! Colgorm came, in his... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...was also known to Ossian. * If on the heath she moved, her breast teas whiter than the down of Cana ; if on the sea-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling...ocean. Her eyes were two stars of light. Her face axw heaven's bo'e in showers. Her dark hair flowed around it, like streaming clouds. Thou wert the... | |
| James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...was also known to Ossian. s If on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana ; if on the sea-beat shore, than -the foam of the rolling ocean. Her eyes uxre two stars of light. Her face was heaven's boio in showers. Her dark hair flowed around it, like... | |
| Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...high bosomed Strina-dona ! If on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana;* if on the seabeat shore, than the foam of the rolling...light. Her face was heaven's bow in showers. Her dark bair flowed round it, like the streaming clouds. Thou wert the dweller of souls white-handed Strina-dona!... | |
| Patrick Graham - Ogham stones - 1807 - 512 pages
...adorned locks : she in" flames, whether she is in white, or in " purple," is the original of Ossian's " If " on the sea-beat shore, than the foam of " the rolling ocean." In these alleged imitations, I can discern nothing common, except the particle seu, in the Latin, and... | |
| Jane Porter - Scotland - 1810 - 382 pages
...her memory could dictate. " If on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana; If on the sea-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling...bow in showers. Her dark hair flowed round it, like the streaming clouds. Thou wert the dweller of souls, white-handed Strinadona!" Wallace rose from his... | |
| Bards and bardism - 1810 - 364 pages
...high-bosomed Strina-dona. If on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana;* if on the seabeat shore, than the foam of the rolling ocean. Her eyes were two stars of light. Hor face was heaven's bow in showers. Her dark hair flowed round it like the streaming clouds. Thou... | |
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