 O Oscar ! bend the strong in arm ; but spare the feeble hand. Be thou a stream of many tides against the foes of thy people ; but like the gale that moves the grass to those who ask thine aid. — So Tremor lived; such Trathal was ; and such has Fingal...  The Poems of Ossian - Page 98by James Macpherson - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1813 - 536 pages
...stretched forth to the unhappy, my sword defends the '' weak f." " O Oscar, bend the strong in arm, but " spare the feeble hand. Be thou a stream of many...the gale that *' moves the grass to those who ask thy aid. Never search " for * Carric.tlmra. t Calthon and Colmar. " for the battle, nor shun it when... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...beautiful attitudes of his heroes. Take the following instances: O Oscar ! bend the strong in arm; but spare the feeble hand. Be thou a stream of many...the gale that moves the grass to those who ask thine aid.—So Tremor lived; such Trathal was; and such has Fingal been. My arm was the support of the injured;... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 434 pages
...beautiful attitudes of his heroes. Take the following in-, stances : O Oscar ! bend the strong in arm ; but spare the feeble hand. Be thou a stream of many...moves the grass to those who ask thine aid. — So Tremor lived; such Trathal was ; and such has Fingal been. My arm was the support of the injured ;... | |
 | Edward Davies - Celtic poetry - 1825 - 356 pages
...They fought the hattle in their youth. They are the sou" of hards. O Oscar! bend the strong in arm: but spare the feeble hand. Be thou a stream of many...that moves the grass, to those who ask thine aid. So Treumor lived; such Trathal was; and such has Fingal been. My arm was the support of the injured ;... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1830 - 492 pages
...the following instances : 0 Oscar ! bend the strong in arm ; but spare the feeble hand. Be thoa • stream of many tides against the foes of thy people...moves the grass to those who ask thine aid. — So Tremor lived ; such Trataal vvns ; and such has Fingal been. My arm was the support of the injured;... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1831 - 328 pages
...beautiful attitudes of hi heroes. Take the following instances : O Oscar ! bend the strong in arm ; but spare the feeble hand. Be thou a stream of many...moves the grass to those who ask thine aid. — So Tremor lived ; such Trathal was ; and such has Fingal been. My arm was the support of the injured ;... | |
 | Carl Franz C. Wagner - Classical philology - 1832 - 266 pages
...They fought the battle in their youth. They are the song of bards. О Oscar! bend the «trong in arm : but spare the feeble hand. Be thou a stream of many...aid. So Trenmor lived; such Trathal was; and such ha> Fingal been. My urm was the support of the injured ; the weak rested behind the lightning of my... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...rich, it flourishes and is beautiful.— Feltham. Be thon a stream of many tides against tby foes ; but like the gale that moves the grass, to those who ask thine aid. Ouian. Dolls for children : Idols for the church. — Sentence of Yung chiny. acts. THE Chinese year,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1833 - 518 pages
...heroes. Take the following instances: O Oscar ! bend the strong in arm ; but spare the feeble hand. Bo thou a stream of many tides against the foes of thy...moves the grass to those who ask thine aid. — So Tremor lived ; such Trathalwas; and such has Fingal been. My arm was the support of the injured ; and... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - National characteristics, Scottish - 1840 - 306 pages
...the only verses that Bonaparte ever seems to have liked, perhaps approving of the poet's advice, " Be a stream of many tides against the foes of thy people,...but like the gale that moves the grass to those who are thy friends." Ossian's cave, one of the most striking objects in Glencoe, looks like a lion's den,... | |
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