| Bards and bardism - 1765 - 416 pages
...they may come to my dreams ; I think I hear a feeble voice. — The beam of heaven delights to fhine on the grave of Carthon : I feel it warm around. O THOU that rolleft above*, round as the ihield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O fun I thy everlafting light... | |
| Literature - 1781 - 316 pages
...: — «* I feel the fun, O Malvina ! leave me " to my reft. The beam of Heaven delights " to fhine on the grave of Carthon ; I feel it " warm around. " O Thou that rolled above, round as the '* fliicld of my fathers ! whence are thy. «« beams, O Son! thyeverlaftingjight... | |
| Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 274 pages
...—I feel the fun , O Malvina , leave me to my reft. Perhaps they may come ro my dreams ; I think I hear a feeble voice. — The beam of heaven delights...the grave of Carthon : I feel it warm around. O thou tjiat rolleft above (i) , round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams , O fun ! thy everlafting... | |
| 1799 - 252 pages
...Perhaps they may come to my dreams; I think I hear a feeble voice The beam of heaven delights to ftiine on the grave of Carthon: I feel it warm around. O thou that rolleft above, round as the mield of my fathers! Whence are thv beams, O fun! thy everlafting light?... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 308 pages
...Malvina ! leave me to my (' rest. The beam of heaven delights to shine on the " grave of Carlhon ; I feel it warm around. " O thou that rollest above,...shield " of my fathers ! whence are thy beams, O Sun t " thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy >; awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...О thou that rollest above 4Î, round as the ** / feel the sun, O Malvina, leave me to my rest. — The beam of heaven delights to shine on the grave of Carthon. I feel it warm чтит!.] From Samson Agonistes^ 3. For yonder bank hath choice of sun and shade Where I am wont... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...feel the sun, O Malvina ; leave me to my rest. Perhaps they may come to my dreams ; I think I hear 2 feeble voice. The beam of heaven delights to shine on the grave of Catthon : I feel it warm around. O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence... | |
| William Belsham - 1806 - 646 pages
...satisfactorily ascertained. Ossian's address to the sun, to adduce no other instance, is truly sublime : " O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers, whence are thy beams, O Sun ! whence thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; and the stars hide themselves... | |
| Thomas Hogg - 1811 - 120 pages
...FIRST. ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT. GOOD-FRIDAY MORNING; April, 181O. Canto " O tliou that rollcst al-ovc, round as the shield of my fathers ! whence are thy beams, O Sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou eamest forth in thy awful bcauty ; tlie stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale,... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...omnipotent voice hath, fixed the limits where thy proud waves shall be stayed ! ATOSTROrHE TO THE SUN. 0 thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, O sun ! thy everlasiing light ? thou comest forth, in thy awful beau; y> and the stars hide themselves in the sky... | |
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