 As a hundred winds on Morven ; as the streams of a hundred hills ; as clouds fly successive over heaven ; as the dark ocean assails the shore of the desert : so roaring, so vast, so terrible the armies mixed on Lena's echoing heath.  Der Stil des Macphersonschen Ossian - Page 62by Walther Drechsler - 1904 - 82 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hugh Blair - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1763 - 94 pages
...follows is fuperior to any comparifon that Homer ufes on this fubject. " The groan of the " people fpread over the hills; it was like the thunder of night, " when the cloud burfts on Cona ; and a thoufand ghofts shriek at " once on the hollow wind §." Never was an image... | |
 | Poetry - 1773 - 432 pages
...roaring, fo vaft, fo terrible the armies mixed on Lena's ecchoing heath. The groan of the people fpread over the hills : it was like the thunder of night, when the cloud burfts on Cona ; and a thoufand ghofts fhriek at once on the hollow wind. Fingal rufhed on in his ftrength,... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1779 - 250 pages
...fo vaft , fo terrible the armies mixed on Lena's echoing heath. — The groan' of the people fpread over the hills ; it was like the thunder of night , when the clouct burfts on Cona ; and a thoufand ghofts shriek at once on the hollow wind. Fingal rushed on in... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1787 - 482 pages
...laft peal of the thunder of heaven ; " fuch is the noife of battle. The groan of " the people fpread over the hills. It was like " the thunder of night, when the cloud burfts " on Cona, and a thoufand ghofts fhriek at " once on the hollow wind." Never were images of... | |
 | Ossian - 1790 - 446 pages
...roaring, fo vaft, fo terrible, the armies mixed on Lena's echoing heath. The groan of the people fpread over the hills : it was like the thunder of night, when the cloud burfts on Cona ; and a thoufand ghofls fhriek at once on the hollow wind. Fingal rufhed on in his ftrength,... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 464 pages
...whole people. " The groans of <he people spread over the hills ; they were like the thunder of the night when the cloud bursts on Cona, and a thousand ghosts shriek at once on the hollow wind : silence darkened the land around ; blasts • sighed lonely on grassy tombs."* After _J After every... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Conduct of life - 1798 - 362 pages
...laft peal of the " thunder of heaven ; fuch is the noife of battle. " The groan of the people fpread over the hills. " It was like the thunder of night, when the " cloud burfts on Cona, and a thoufand ghoiis " fhriek at once on the hollow wind." Never were images of more... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...consequence of all which I scruple not to believe, that the groan of the people spread over the hills, that it was like the thunder of night when the cloud bursts on Cona, and that a thousand ghosts shrieked at once on the hollow wind. I can even believe that lish it to the... | |
 | James Macpherson - 1803 - 386 pages
...the shore of the desert : so roaring, so vast, so terrible the armies mixed on Lena's echoing heath. The groan of the people spread over the hills : it...thousand ghosts shriek at once on the hollow wind. Fingal rushed on in his strength, terrible as the spirit of Trenmor; when, in a whirlwind, he comes... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 390 pages
...moon. Be your spears the meteors of death. Follow me in the path of my fame. Equal my deeds in battle." over the hills : it was like the thunder of night,...thousand ghosts shriek at once on the hollow wind. Fingal rushed on in his strength, terrible as the spirit of Trenmor; when, in a whirlwind, he comes... | |
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