 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
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...man. Steel clanging sounded on steel. Helmets are cleft on " high: blood bursts, and smoke around. As the troubled noise " of the ocean when roll the waves..." 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... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 642 pages
...set off to meet their foes, they engaged, " chief mixed his strokes with chief, and man with man; as the troubled noise of the ocean, when roll the waves...peal of the thunder of Heaven, such is the noise of the battle. Death raises his voices around, and mixes with the sound of shields. The groans of the... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1838 - 450 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." We have thus endeavored to study the philosophy of eloquence ; and, if its true characteristics are... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1840 - 314 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 Cormacs' hundred bards were there, feeble were... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...Helmets are cleft on high ; blood bm-sts and smokes around. As the troubled noise of the ocean who;: roll the waves on high; as the last peal of the 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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 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 on high ; as the list peal of the thunder of heaven ; such is the noise of battle." ^ OSSIAI*. " In my distress I called... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - Military art and science - 1845 - 642 pages
...thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglass in his hall V' " 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... | |
 | Ossian - 1845 - 546 pages
...Spears fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of night : 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... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 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... | |
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