The Poems of OssianBernhard Tauchnitz, 1847 - 382 pages |
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... peace is patched up with the Cale- donians , and , as it appears from Dion Cassius , the country they had lost to Severus was restored to them . The Caracul of Fingal is no other than Caracalla , who , as the son of Severus , the ...
... peace is patched up with the Cale- donians , and , as it appears from Dion Cassius , the country they had lost to Severus was restored to them . The Caracul of Fingal is no other than Caracalla , who , as the son of Severus , the ...
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... peace , and bravery in war , are the characte- ristics of a nation , their actions become interesting , and their fame worthy of immortality . A generous spirit is warmed with noble actions , and becomes ambitious of perpetuating them ...
... peace , and bravery in war , are the characte- ristics of a nation , their actions become interesting , and their fame worthy of immortality . A generous spirit is warmed with noble actions , and becomes ambitious of perpetuating them ...
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... peace . Fifty and one times have I reared the standard in battle . In my youth I learned to dye the sword in blood : my hope was then that no king among men would be more renowned than me . The goddesses of death will now soon call me ...
... peace . Fifty and one times have I reared the standard in battle . In my youth I learned to dye the sword in blood : my hope was then that no king among men would be more renowned than me . The goddesses of death will now soon call me ...
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... peace their principal enter- tainment , must have had a very considerable influence in propa- gating among them real manners nearly approaching to the poe- tical ; and in forming even such a hero as Fingal . Especially when we consider ...
... peace their principal enter- tainment , must have had a very considerable influence in propa- gating among them real manners nearly approaching to the poe- tical ; and in forming even such a hero as Fingal . Especially when we consider ...
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... peace . For however rude the magni- ficence of those times may seem to us , we must remember that all ideas of magnificence are comparative , and that the age of Fingal was an æra of distinguished splendour in that part of the world ...
... peace . For however rude the magni- ficence of those times may seem to us , we must remember that all ideas of magnificence are comparative , and that the age of Fingal was an æra of distinguished splendour in that part of the world ...
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