 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
 | Charles Frederick Holder - California - 1893 - 856 pages
...glance will show ho-.v far, in point of poetic form, we are behind even a wild poet of days by-gone : As roll a thousand waves to the rock, So Swaran's host came on ; As meets a rock a thousand waves, So Inisfail met Swaran. Or again : My love is a son of the hill ; He pursues the flying... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond, George Post Wheeler - English language - 1893 - 224 pages
...spears fall like circles of light which gild the stormy face of night. " 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. Though Cormac's hundred bards were there, feeble were... | |
 | John Vance Cheney - American poetry - 1895 - 466 pages
...a glance will show how far, in point of poetic form, we are behind a wild bard of days bygone, — "As roll a thousand waves to the rock, So Swaran's host came on ; As meets a rock a thousand waves, So Inisfail met Swaran." Or again, — " My love is a son of the hill ; He pursues... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Celts - 1900 - 490 pages
...Darts rush along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light that gild the stormy face of night. As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves...the thunder of heaven, such is the noise of battle. Though Cormac's hundred bards were there to give the war to song ; feeble were the voices of a hundred... | |
 | W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 pages
...meet and mix, and roar on the plain : loud rough, and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Inisfail. ... As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves...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... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 610 pages
...and mix, and roar on the plain : loud> rough, and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Inisfail. ... As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves...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... | |
 | 1901 - 452 pages
...Skye; and a stone to which he bound his dog Luath, goes still by his name. As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high. As the last peal of thunder in heaven, such is the din of war! Though Cormac's hundred bards were there to give the fight... | |
 | Alfred Biese - Nature - 1905 - 398 pages
...rising hill. the beam of the west. Thy breasts are two smooth rocks seen from Branno of streams. As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves...thunder of heaven, such is the noise of battle. As autumn's dark storms pour from two echoing hills, towards each other approached the heroes. The clouds... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - Literary style - 1905 - 390 pages
...and mix, and roar on the plain : loud, rough, and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Inisfail. ... As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves...as the last peal of the thunder of heaven ; such is noise of the battle. Except in the position of the verb in the first two similes, the theoretically... | |
 | Alfred Biese - Nature - 1905 - 394 pages
...rising hill. fc* the beam of the west. Thy breasts are two smooth rocks seen from Branno of streams. As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves on high ; as the last peal of the 1 1 mn<jcr of heaven, such is the noise of battle. As autumn's dark storms pour from two echoing hills,... | |
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