 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 390 pages
...grandfather was Trathal, and great grandfather Treumor, both of whom are often mentioned in the poem. their place ; rivulets, changing their course, fled...yield to him, that is strong as the storms of his land !" "No!" replied the blue-eyed chief, "I never yield to mortal man ! Dark Cuthullin shall be great... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...rivulets, changing their course, fled murmuring from our strife. Three days we renewed our strife, and heroes stood at a distance and trembled. On the fourth,...Cuthullin yield to him that is strong as the storms of Malmor. " No !" replied the blue-eyed chief, " I will never yield to man ; Dark Cuthullin shall be... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...shore. gal, king of Selma of storms ? Once we wrestled on Malmor ; our heels overturned the woods. Rocks fell from their place ; rivulets, changing their course, fled murmuring from our side 8. Three days we renewed our strife ; heroes stood at a distance and trembled. On the fourth, Fingal... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 364 pages
...Who but Fingal, king of Selma of storms? Once we wrestled on Malmor;* our heels overturned the woods^ Rocks fell from their place; rivulets, changing their...the strife; heroes stood at a distance and trembled. Oil the fourth, Fingal says, that the king of the ocean fell! but Swaran says, he stood! Let dark Cuthullin... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1806 - 254 pages
...Fingal, king of Selma of storms r - " Once we wrestled on Malmor ; 35 " Our heels overturned the woods. " Rocks fell from their place ; " Rivulets, changing...from our side. " Three days we renewed the strife ; 40 " Heroes stood at a distance, and trembled. " On the fourth, Fingal says, " That the king of the... | |
 | 1807 - 536 pages
...Fingal, king of Selma of storms ? " Once we wrestled on Malmor ; 35 " Our heels overturned the woods. " Rocks fell from their place ; " Rivulets, changing...from our side. " Three days we renewed the strife ; 40 " Heroes stood at a distance, and trembled. " On the fourth, Fingal says, " That the king of the... | |
 | Ossian - 1807 - 546 pages
...Fingal, king of Selma of storms ? " Once we wrestled on Malmor ; 35 " Our heels overturned the woods. " Rocks fell from their place ; " Rivulets, changing...from our side. " Three days we renewed the strife ; 40 " Heroes stood at a distance, and trembled. " On the fourth, Fingal says, " That the king of the... | |
 | James Grant - Celtic languages - 1814 - 586 pages
...These are natural simple images, not derived from the authority of Milton. Criticism, p. 11. — " Rocks fell from their place, " rivulets, changing their course, fled murmuring "from our side." Virgil, Jin. viii. 239. " Dissultant ripse, reftuitque exterritus amnis." " Imitated in Macpherson's... | |
 | Hugh Campbell - Celts - 1822 - 416 pages
...but Fingal, king of Selma of storms ? Once we wrestled on Malmor ;* our heels overturned the woods. Rocks fell from their place; rivulets, changing their...Cuthullin yield to him, that is strong as the storms of hi:. land I" " No !" replied the blue-eyed chief, " l never yield to mortal man ! Dark Cuthnllin shall... | |
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He spoke, like a wave on a rock: Who in this land appears like me ? Heroes stand not in my presence; they fall to earth from my hand. Who can meet Swaran in fight ? Who but Fingal, king of Selma of storms? Once we wrestled on Malmor; our heels overturned... 
