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" But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow! Thy face was like the sun after rain; like the moon in the silence of night; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud wind is laid. "
The Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal - Page 55
1799
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The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson. Blair's critical ..., Volume 1

Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...distant hills. Many fell by thy arm; they were consumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow! Thy face was like the sun after rain; like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud...
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The castles of Wolfnorth & Mont Eagle, by St. Ann, Volume 4

Ann Doherty - 1812 - 356 pages
...not till a late hour did the exhausted chieftains retire to repose. CHAP. VIII. ' But when thou didst return from war, " How peaceful was thy brow ! " Thy face was like the sun after rain." Ouitn. ON the morning succeeding this glorious day, a day in which so many heroes...
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...hills. Many fell by thy arm — they were consumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain — like the moon in the silence of night— calm as the breast of the lake, when the...
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The English Master: Or, Student's Guide to Reasoning and Composition ...

William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...distant hills. Many fell by thy arm; they were consumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain ; like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...distant hills. Many fell by thy arm! they were consumed in tin; flames of thy wrath. But when thou didst name : Go, search it there, where to be born imd die, Of rich and sun after raiu ; like the moon in the silence of night ; calm aa the breast of the lake when the loud...
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 1

Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...desert : thy wrath was as the storm : thy voice was like thunder over distant hills. But hen thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain : like the moon n the silence of night, calm as he breast of the lake when the oud winds...
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Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 1

1834 - 438 pages
...distant hills. Many fell by thy arm ; they were consumed by the flames of thy wrath. Hut when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain ; like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...distant hills. Many fell by thy arm ; they were consumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thon didst fashionable and idle; his father died in 1770, and he then began t sun after rain ; like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud...
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The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...distant hills. Many fell by thy arm ; they were consumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain ; like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake, when the loud...
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The National Speaker: Containing Exercises, Original and Selected, in Prose ...

Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Elocution - 1851 - 328 pages
...distant hills. Many fell by thy arm ; they were consumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain ; like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud...
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