The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, Volume 2J.Fr. Valade and sold by Theophilus Barrois, 1783 - Scottish Gaelic poetry |
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... waves probably one of the Hebrides , he faw Cuthona hunting , fell in love with her , and carried her away , by force , in his ship . He was forced by ftrefs of weather 2 ? into I - thona a defart ille . In the mean time Conlath hearing ...
... waves probably one of the Hebrides , he faw Cuthona hunting , fell in love with her , and carried her away , by force , in his ship . He was forced by ftrefs of weather 2 ? into I - thona a defart ille . In the mean time Conlath hearing ...
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... compofed by a bard . -Thus is the story of the poem handed down by tradition . > ( 1 ) I thonn , island of waves , one of the unin habited western ifles . tombs are not seen by the ftranger . How he 4 CONLATH and CUTHONA :
... compofed by a bard . -Thus is the story of the poem handed down by tradition . > ( 1 ) I thonn , island of waves , one of the unin habited western ifles . tombs are not seen by the ftranger . How he 4 CONLATH and CUTHONA :
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... waves deceive me ? Or do I hear them fpeak ? TOSCAR . The night was flormy . From their hills the groaning oaks came down . The fea dark- ly - tumbled beneath the blaft , and the roaring waves were climbing against our ( 1 ) Cuthona the ...
... waves deceive me ? Or do I hear them fpeak ? TOSCAR . The night was flormy . From their hills the groaning oaks came down . The fea dark- ly - tumbled beneath the blaft , and the roaring waves were climbing against our ( 1 ) Cuthona the ...
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... waves , where his love pursued the deer . I faw her , like that beam of the fun that iffues from the cloud . Her hair was on her heaving breaft ; she , bending forward , drew the bow : her white arm feemed , be- hind her , like the fnow ...
... waves , where his love pursued the deer . I faw her , like that beam of the fun that iffues from the cloud . Her hair was on her heaving breaft ; she , bending forward , drew the bow : her white arm feemed , be- hind her , like the fnow ...
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... waves ; a poetical name given her by Offian , on account of her mourning to the found of the waves ; her name in tradition is Gorm - buil the blue - eyed maid . • I shall think it is Cuthona's voice . But she 3 CONLATH and CUTHONA :
... waves ; a poetical name given her by Offian , on account of her mourning to the found of the waves ; her name in tradition is Gorm - buil the blue - eyed maid . • I shall think it is Cuthona's voice . But she 3 CONLATH and CUTHONA :
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