The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, Volume 3J.Fr. Valade and sold by Theophilus Barrois, 1783 |
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torrents pour their noify flreams .-- Two green hills , with aged oaks , furround a narrow plain . The blue course of a stream is both drew their ideas . It is from this confideration that I have avoided , in this volume , to give ...
torrents pour their noify flreams .-- Two green hills , with aged oaks , furround a narrow plain . The blue course of a stream is both drew their ideas . It is from this confideration that I have avoided , in this volume , to give ...
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... oc- cafions . In the courfe of their altercation , Cairbar faid , in a boaftful manner , that he would hunt on the hills of Albion , and carry the spoils of red red hair behind . He lay , like a shattered 20 TEMOR A : Book I.
... oc- cafions . In the courfe of their altercation , Cairbar faid , in a boaftful manner , that he would hunt on the hills of Albion , and carry the spoils of red red hair behind . He lay , like a shattered 20 TEMOR A : Book I.
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... in a piece which is not just now in the tranflator's hands has given him the fame properties with Virgil's Camilla , Bran fignifies a mountain - ftream . hills ! Raife the stones of my renown . Place Dij BOOK I. AN EPIC POEM . 23.
... in a piece which is not just now in the tranflator's hands has given him the fame properties with Virgil's Camilla , Bran fignifies a mountain - ftream . hills ! Raife the stones of my renown . Place Dij BOOK I. AN EPIC POEM . 23.
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hills ! Raife the stones of my renown . Place the horn of the deer , and my fword within my narrow dwelling . - The torrent hereafter may raise the earth : the hunter may find the fteel and fay , « This has been Oscar's fword . >> And ...
hills ! Raife the stones of my renown . Place the horn of the deer , and my fword within my narrow dwelling . - The torrent hereafter may raise the earth : the hunter may find the fteel and fay , « This has been Oscar's fword . >> And ...
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... hills . - Where are our fathers , O warriors ! the chiefs of the times of old ? They have fet like stars that have shone ; we only hear the found of their praife . But they were renowned in their day , the terror of other times . Thus ...
... hills . - Where are our fathers , O warriors ! the chiefs of the times of old ? They have fet like stars that have shone ; we only hear the found of their praife . But they were renowned in their day , the terror of other times . Thus ...
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againſt amidſt antient arife army arofe art thou Atha bards battle beam behold bending blaft Caël Cairbar Caledonians Carril Cathmor chief circumftance Clatho Clono cloud compofitions Conar Cormac courfe courſe Crothar Cuchullin dark darkneſs daugh death defart defcended epifode Erin eyes faid fame father feaft fecret feem fent Ferad-artho fide field filent Fillan Fingal Fion Firbolg firft firſt Foldath fome fong foul fpear fpirit fteel fteps ftill ftood ftrangers ftreams ftrength ftrife fword Gaul ghofts gleaming grey harp hear heard heath hero hill himſelf hoft Inis-huna Irish king of Ireland Larthon lift Lubar Lumon Malthos mift miſt moffy Moi-lena Moma Mora Morni Morven moſt night Ofcar Offian paffage perfon Picts pleaſant poem poet poffeffed raiſed reft renowned rife rock roes rofe rolled Scots shield ſteps Strutha Sul-malla Temora thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thro tranflation Trenmor Ullin vale voice warriors waves winds