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" The flower hangs its heavy head, waving, at times, to the gale. Why dost thou awake me, O gale, it seems to say, I am covered with the drops of heaven? The time of my fading is near, and the blast that shall scatter my leaves. Tomorrow shall the traveller... "
The Poems of Ossian: To which are Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse and ... - Page 142
1850 - 492 pages
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A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian: The Son of Fingal

Hugh Blair - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1763 - 94 pages
...death. " The thirtle (hakes its beard to the wind.. " The flower hangs its heavy head—itfeems to fay, I am covered " with the drops of heaven ; the time of my departure is near, " and the blaft that shall fcatter my leaves." Malvina's death is hinted to him in the mod delicate manner by...
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The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, Volume 1

Bards and bardism - 1765 - 416 pages
...hangs its heavy head, waving, at times, to the gale. Why doft thou awake me, O gale, it feems to fay, I am covered with the drops of heaven ? The time of my fading is near, and the blaft that fhall fcatter my leaves. To-morrow mall the traveller come, he that...
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The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, Volume 2

1765 - 520 pages
...beard to the wind. The flower hangs its heavy «' head — it feems to fay, I am covered with the 'c drops of heaven; the time of. my departure is " near, and the blaft that fhall fcatter my leaves." Malvina's death is hinted to him in the moft delicate manner by...
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The Sorrows of Werter: A German Story, Volume 2

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1779 - 188 pages
...the manufcript, and in. broken accents continued. " Why doft thou awake me, Q gale? It feems to fay, I am covered with the drops of heaven. The time of my fading is near, and the blaft that fhall fcatter my leaves. To-morrow fhall the traveller come; he...
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The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, Volume 4

Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 282 pages
...« The » thiftle shakes its beard to the wind. The flower » hangs its heavy head-it feems to fay, I am >, covered with the drops of heaven ; the time » of my departure is near, and the blaft that « shall fcatter my leaves ». Malvina's death is hinted to him in the moft delicate manner...
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The Sorrows of Werther: A German Story, Volume 2

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1785 - 286 pages
...manufcript, and in broken accents, continued. « Why " Why doft thou awake me, O gale? It .feems to fay, I am covered with the drops of heaven. The time of my fading is near, and the blaft that fhall fcatter my leaves. To-morrow fhall the traveller come ; he...
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The Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, Volume 1

1799 - 252 pages
...its heavy head, waving, at times, to the gale. " Why doft thou awake me, O gale?" it feems to fay; " I am covered with the drops of heaven. The time of my fading is near, and the blaft that fhall fcatter my leaves. To-morrow mall the traveller come, lie...
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Recreations in Agriculture, Natural-history, Arts, and ..., Volume 3

James Anderson - Agriculture - 1800 - 632 pages
...reflected from the waters, and was seen at times gently to move : " Why dost thou awake me, O gale," it seems to say; " I am covered with the drops of heaven? " On the other side, a tufted acacia loaded with its full luxuriance of foliage, still fresh as the...
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Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1803 - 222 pages
...the gale. * The flower hangs its head waving at times to the gale. Why dost thou awake me, O Gale ! it seems to say, I am covered with the drops of Heaven. The time of my fading is near, the blast that shall scatter my leaves. To-morrow shall the traveller come, he that...
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The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson. To which are prefixed ..., Volume 1

Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...pres?ees of death. " The thistle " shakes its beard to the wind. The flower hangs its "heavy heao — it seems to say, I am covered with the, '- drops of...apotheosis, or ascent to the habitation of heroes, anil the introduction to the story which follows from tne mention which Ossian supposes the father...
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