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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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McGuffey's Newly Revised Rhetorical Guide: Or, Fifth Reader of the Eclectic ...

William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 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 njght; calm as the breast of the lake, when the...
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Novels and Tales: By Goëthe. Elective Affinities; The Sorrows of Werther ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1854 - 544 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 p after rain : like the moon in the silence of night: calm as the breast of the lake when the loud...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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 Quarterly Review, Volumes 11-12

1865 - 838 pages
...distant hills. Many fell by thy arm ; they were consumed in 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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Butler Burke at Eton

Bracebridge Hemyng - 1865 - 344 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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Novels and Tales by Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1868 - 522 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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Choice Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief English ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1850 - 492 pages
...distant hills. Many fell by thy arm ; they were consumed in the names 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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Rudiments of English composition. [With] Key. Adapted to the improved ed

Alexander Reid - 1872 - 174 pages
...in the field, thy sword in battle. Like thunder on distant hills was thy voice. But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow! Thy face was like the sun after rain; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud wind is hushed into repose. Narrow is...
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Novels and Tales

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1873 - 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 Elocutionist: A Collection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, Peculiarly ...

James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1874 - 458 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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