The Poems of OssianBernhard Tauchnitz, 1847 - 382 pages |
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Page 55
... night . The night scenery is beauti- ful ; and the author has plainly imitated the style and manner of Ossian ; but he has allowed some images to appear which betray a later period of society . For we meet with windows clapping , the ...
... night . The night scenery is beauti- ful ; and the author has plainly imitated the style and manner of Ossian ; but he has allowed some images to appear which betray a later period of society . For we meet with windows clapping , the ...
Page 74
... night set on the heath before him . A distant tor- rent faintly roars . Unfrequent blasts rush through the aged oaks . The half - enlightened moon sinks dim and red behind the hill . Feeble voices are heard on the heath . Oscar drew his ...
... night set on the heath before him . A distant tor- rent faintly roars . Unfrequent blasts rush through the aged oaks . The half - enlightened moon sinks dim and red behind the hill . Feeble voices are heard on the heath . Oscar drew his ...
Page 79
... night as well as of the day . The still , pathetic , and the romantic scenery of several of the night adventures , so remarkably suited to Ossian's genius , occasion a fine diversity in the poem ; and are happily contrasted with the ...
... night as well as of the day . The still , pathetic , and the romantic scenery of several of the night adventures , so remarkably suited to Ossian's genius , occasion a fine diversity in the poem ; and are happily contrasted with the ...
Page 104
... night . It rises in its splendour ; but its splendour is fatal ; be- tokening to miserable men the destroying heat . ' The first ap- pearance of Fingal is , in like manner , compared by Ossian to a star or meteor . " Fingal tall in his ...
... night . It rises in its splendour ; but its splendour is fatal ; be- tokening to miserable men the destroying heat . ' The first ap- pearance of Fingal is , in like manner , compared by Ossian to a star or meteor . " Fingal tall in his ...
Page 105
... night , when he calls them from the top of Morven , and prepares to pour them on the land of the stranger . " " They fell before my son , like groves in the desert , when an angry ghost rushes through night , and takes their green heads ...
... night , when he calls them from the top of Morven , and prepares to pour them on the land of the stranger . " " They fell before my son , like groves in the desert , when an angry ghost rushes through night , and takes their green heads ...
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The Poems of Ossian James MacPherson,Hugh 1718-1800 Critical Dissert Blair No preview available - 2016 |
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