 | Bards and bardism - 1765 - 416 pages
...each other : they turn from fide to fide, and ftrain and ftretch their large fpreading limbs below. But when the pride of their ftrength arofe, they fhook...heels ; rocks tumble from their places on high ; the green-headed bufhes are • overturned. At length the ftrength of Swaran fell ; and the king of the... | |
 | Poetry - 1773 - 432 pages
...each other : they turn from fide to fide, and firain and ftretch their large fpreading limbs below. But when the pride of their ftrength arofe, they fhook the hill with their heels. Rocks Rocks tumble from their places on high; the green-headed bufhes are overturned. At length the ftrength... | |
 | Celts - 1784 - 432 pages
...each other : they turn from fide to fide, and ftrain and ftretch their large fpreading limbs below. But when the pride of their ftrength arofe, they fhook the hill with their heels. 4 Rocks Rocks tumble from their places on high; the green-headed bufhes are overturned. At length the... | |
 | Robert Henry - Great Britain - 1789 - 644 pages
...ftretch their large " fpreading limbs below. But when the pride of their " ftrength arofe, they (hook the hill with their heels ; '•' rocks tumble from their places on high ; the green " headed bufhes arc overturned (34)." For though this defcription is highly poetical, it was certainly intended to... | |
 | Ossian - 1790 - 446 pages
...each other: they turn from fide to fide, and flrain and ftretch their large fpreading limbs below. But when the pride of their ftrength arofe, they fhook the hill with their heels. 7 Rocks BOOK V. An EPICPOE M. 303 Rocks tumble from their places on high ; the green-headed bufhes... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1790 - 322 pages
...and ilretch their large fpreadmg limbs below. But when the pride of their ftrength arofe, they Ihook the hill with their heels. Rocks tumble from their places on high 5 the green-headed bufhes are overturned. At length the ftrength of Swaran fell : the king of the groves... | |
 | Robert Henry - Great Britain - 1800 - 522 pages
...each other ; they turn from " fide to fide, and drain and ftretch their large " ipreading limbs below. But when the pride " of their ftrength arofe, they fhook the hill <c with their heels ; rocks tumble from their " places on high ; the green headed bufhes are " overturned34."... | |
 | 1801 - 334 pages
...fide , and ftrain and ftretch their large fpreading limbs below. But when the pride of their ftreugth arofe, they fhook the hill with their heels. Rocks tumble from their places on high ; the green-headed bufhen are overturned. At length the ftrength of Swaran fell : the king of the groves... | |
 | Ossian - 1801 - 344 pages
...and ftrain and ftretch their large fpreading limbs below. But when the pride of their ftrength anile, they fhook the hill with their heels. Rocks tumble from their places on high ; the green-headed bullies are overturned. At length the ftrength of Swaran fell: the king of the groves... | |
 | John Adams - Great Britain - 1803 - 486 pages
...and ftretch their large fpreading limbs below : But when the pride of their ftrength arofe, they mook the hill with their heels ; rocks tumble from their...on high ; the green headed bufhes are overturned." They excelled in running, fwimming, wreftling, climbing, and all kinds of bodily excrcifes. They could... | |
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... limbs below. But when the pride of their strength arose, they shook the hill with their heels. Rocks tumble from their places on high; the green-headed bushes are overturned. 
