 Helmets are cleft on high ; blood bursts, and smokes around. As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves on high ; as the last peal of the thunder of heaven ; such is the noise of battle.  The Poems of Ossian - Page 1651810Full view - About this book
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1846 - 312 pages
...man. Steel clanging sounded on steel. Helmets are cleft on high' ; blood bursts and smokes around. As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves...thunder of heaven ; such is the noise of battle." OsSIAN. " In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God : he heard my voice out of his... | |
 | Richard Hiley - English language - 1846 - 330 pages
...sky: spears fall like sparks of flame that gild the stormy face of night. As the noise of troubled ocean when roll the waves on high, as the last peal of thundering heaven; such is the noise of battle. Though Cormac's hundred bards were there, feeble were... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 pages
...man. Steel clanging sounded on steel. Helmets are cleft on high ; blood bursts and smokes around. As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves...the thunder of heaven ; such is the noise of battle. The groan of the people spreads over the hills. It was like the thunder of night when the cloud bursts... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1847 - 516 pages
...the fewest words, those circumstances which make the greatest figure. As the noise of the troubled ocean when roll the waves on high, as the last peal of thundering heaven, such is the noise of battle. Tho' Cormuc's hundred bards were there, feeble were... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1850 - 292 pages
...man. Steel clanging sounded on steel. Helmets are cleft on high ; blood bursts, and smokes around. As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves...rock, so Swaran's host came on ; as meets a rock a thousand waves, so Innis-fail met Swaran. "Death raises all his voices around, and mixes with the sound... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...man. Steel clanging sounded on steel. Helmets are cleft on high ; blood bursts and smokes around. As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves...thunder of heaven ; such is the noise of battle." OSSIAM. " In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God e be heard my voice out of bis... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 pages
...gild the stormy face of night. As the noise of troubled ocean when roll the waves on high ; as tha last peal of the thunder of heaven ; such is the noise of battle. Though Cormac's hundred bards were there, feeble were the voice of a hundred bards, to send the deaths... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 196 pages
...rock that gave it rest, Poor Ellen glided from her stay, And at the monarch's fect she lay. — SCoTT. noise of the ocean when roll the waves on high ; as...the thunder of heaven ; such is the noise of battle. — OssIAN. 451. The INTERROGATIVE is a rhetorical mode of arrangement, in which, by a personal appeal,... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1853 - 348 pages
...sky: spears fall like sparks of flame that gild the stormy face of night. As the noise of troubled ocean when roll the waves on high ; as the last peal...the thunder of heaven ; such is the noise of battle. Though Cormac's hundred bards were there, feeble were the Toice of a hundred bards, to send the deaths... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Literary Criticism - 1855 - 498 pages
...dark in battle meet Lochlin ami In iris tUil. * * * * As the troubled noise of the ocean when rolls the waves on high ; as the last peal of the thunder of heaven ; — such is the noise of the battle. Except in the position of the verb in the first two similes, the theoretically best arrangement... | |
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