 | Lafcadio Hearn - American literature - 1927 - 520 pages
...impossible to deny a certain beauty to those lines which begin the famous " Address to the Sun":— " O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of...Whence are thy beams, O Sun, thy everlasting light ? " The influence of the imaginary Ossian did more to break the influence of Dr. Johnson than any other... | |
 | Elizabeth Avery, Jane Olive Dorsey, Vera Abigail Sickels - Elocution - 1928 - 568 pages
...SHAKESPEARE 26. The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free. COLERIDGE 27. Oh thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers, Whence are thy beams, 0 Sun — thy everlasting light? OSSIAN 28. For I think that all right use of life, and the sense of... | |
 | Kenneth M. Price - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 392 pages
...the verses. The interest of the comparison will be found to extend beyond the matter of form: OSSIAN. O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of...everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western way; but thou thyself... | |
 | Madeleine B. Stern - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 452 pages
...appeared a second time, charging forward with a shield to utter in bloodcurdling accents Ossian's lines, "O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers." Finally Louy topped the festivities with the recitation of "Geehale — An Indian Lament," and the... | |
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O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou... 
