 | 1799 - 252 pages
...{ Thy face was like the fun after rain: like the moon in the filence of night ; calm as the breaft of the lake when the loud wind is laid. Narrow is...dwelling now; dark the place of thine abode. With three fteps I coinpafs thy grave, O thou who waft fo great before ! Four Hones, with their heads of mofs,... | |
 | Ossian - 1801 - 344 pages
...filence of night; calm as the breaft of the lake when the loud wind is laid. THE SONGS or SELMA. 83 Narrow is thy dwelling now! dark the place of thine abode! With three fieps 1 cdmpafs thy grave, O thou who waft fo great before ! Four ftones, with their heads of mofs,... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...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...who wast so great before ! Four stones, with their heads of moss, are the only memorial of thee. A tree with scaree a leaf, long grass which whistles... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...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...thine abode ! With three steps I compass thy grave, О thou who wast so great before '6 ! Four stones, with their heads of moss, are the only memorial... | |
 | James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...returnedst 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. memorial of thee. A tree with scarce a leaf, long grass which whistles in the wind, mark to the hunter's... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...returnedst 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. memorial of thee. A tree with scarce a leaf, long grass which whistles in the wind, mark to the hunter's... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...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...abode! With three steps I compass thy grave, O thou wast so great before! Four stones, with their heads of moss, are the only memorial of time. A tree... | |
 | Mrs. Costello - 1809 - 248 pages
...CHAP. X, ..... " Wy tears are for the dead; my veins for those that bare {Missed away.. . ; A ; .,,.-. Narrow is thy dwelling now ! dark the place of thine abode; with three steps I compass 'thy grave. Thou art low lacked.- Fallen' is the daughter of, Morglaal. , »• • i • > • OsSIAVt.' I recovered... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...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 hushed into repose. Narrow is thy dwelling now — dark the place of thine abode. With three steps... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - Costume - 1820 - 538 pages
...employed in decorating these little mansions of the great, where every rustic may with Alpin say, ' With three steps I compass thy grave, O thou who wast so great before !' For the architects obliged to proportion it to the smallness of the speck allotted to the undertaking,... | |
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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... 
