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" You too, ye bards! whom sacred raptures fire. To chant your heroes to your country's lyre; Who consecrate, in your immortal strain, Brave patriot souls, in righteous battle slain, Securely now the tuneful task renew, And noblest themes in deathless songs... "
Some of Ossian's Lesser Poems Rendered Into Verse: With a Preliminary ... - Page 41
by James Macpherson, Archibald M'Donald - 1805 - 284 pages
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 2

Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 402 pages
...too, ye bards, whom sacred raptures fire To chaunt your heroes to your country's lyre, Who conseerate in your immortal strain. Brave patriot souls in righteous battle slain ; Securely now the useful task renew, And noblest themes in deathless songs pursue. Row*. f Vid. Voyages de dunlin, chap,...
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The Description of Britain

Charles Bertram, Richard (of Cirencester) - Books - 1809 - 336 pages
...1. i. You too, ye bards ! whom sacred raptures fire, To chant your heroes to your country's lyre ; Who consecrate, in your immortal strain, . Brave patriot...renew, And noblest themes in deathless songs pursue. The druids now, while arms are heard no more, Old mysteries and barbarous rites restore, A tribe who...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 20

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 796 pages
...engage. You too, ye bards ! whum sacred rapture s fire, To chant your heroes to your country's lyre; Who consecrate, in your immortal strain, Brave patriot...battle slain; Securely now the tuneful task renew, And noblc.-t themes in deatb'css songs pursue. The Druids HOW, while arms are heard no more, Old mysteries...
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Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres, Volume 3

Hugh Blair - English literature - 1811 - 400 pages
...compositions, * You too, ye bards, whom sacred raptures fire, To chaunt your heroes to your country's lyre, Who consecrate in your immortal strain, Brave patriot...souls in righteous battle slain ; Securely now the useful task renew, And noblest themes in deathless songs pursue. ROVVE. t Vid. Voyages de Chardin,...
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Sketches of the History of Man, Volume 1

Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1813 - 536 pages
...' You too, ye bards ! whom sacred raptures fire, ' To chant your heroes to your country's lyre ; ' Who consecrate in your immortal strain, ' Brave patriot...renew, ' And noblest themes in deathless songs pursue." ROWE. f Diodorus Siculus, lib. 5. Athenaeus, lib. 13. have with courage, she observed, that it was...
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A Treatise on the Situation, Manners, and Inhabitants of Germany

Cornelius Tacitus - Germanic peoples - 1815 - 244 pages
...i. 447. You too, ye Bards! whom sacred raptures fire, To chant your heroes to your country's lyre ; Who consecrate, in your immortal strain, Brave patriot...renew, And noblest themes in deathless songs pursue. ROWF.. The North American war-whoop appears to be very similar to the ancient German battle-cry. ....
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...• You too, ye bards, Whom sacred raptures fire, To cliaunt your heroes to your country's lyre, \Vhu consecrate in your immortal strain, Brave patriot souls in righteous battle slain ; Securely now the useful task renew, And noblest themes in deathless song* pursue. f Vld. Voyages de Chardin, chap de...
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A Treatise on the Situation, Manners, and Inhabitants of Germany

Cornelius Tacitus - Germanic peoples - 1823 - 240 pages
...i. 447. You too, ye Bards! whom sacred raptures fire, To chaunt your heroes to your country's lyre ; Who consecrate, in your immortal strain, Brave patriot...tuneful task renew, And noblest themes in deathless Mings pursue. Rowc. The North American war-whoop appears to be very similar to tbt, ancient Gfrinai....
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Memoirs of the Celts Or Gauls

Joseph Ritson - Celts - 1827 - 396 pages
...honourably in war made the subject of the Celtic songs. (jElian, B. lii, C. *3.) Who consecrate, iti your immortal strain Brave patriot souls in righteous...renew, And noblest themes in deathless songs pursue." The Celts, according to Posidonius, even when they went to war, carried with them tablecompanions,...
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Transactions of the Cymmrodorion, Or Metropolitan Cambrian Institution, Volume 2

Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - Wales - 1828 - 442 pages
...THE BARDS. You too, ye Bards, whom sacred rapture fire To chant your heroes to your country's lyre, Who consecrate, in your immortal strain, Brave patriot...renew, And noblest themes in deathless songs pursue. iUsri Sf vctf atiloif K«I WGi»T«i/iEAw>< a; Lvcan, lib. i. 748. There are amongst them melodists...
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