| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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