 Steel sounds on steel, and helmets are cleft on high : blood bursts and smokes around : strings murmur on the polished yews : darts rush along the sky : spears fall like circles of light which gild the stormy face of night.  The Poems of Ossian - Page 2721812Full view - About this book
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...die simile of the two torrents precedes, and in Homer, it succeeds the description of the battle. 50 As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high. At the last peal of thunder in heaven4.] From the introductory simile to the first battle in the Iliad.... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1806 - 254 pages
...Chief mixes his strokes with chief, And man with man ; Steel, clanging, sounds on steel. 420 Helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smokes around....along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light, 425 NEW TRANSLATION. " O paltry son of Arno. " I have suffered the storms of heaven, 400 " Tossed on... | |
 | 1807 - 536 pages
...Chief mixes his strokes with chief, And man with man ; Steel, clanging, sounds on steel. 420" Helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smokes around....along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light, 425 Which gild the face of night. NEW TRANSLATION. " O paltry son of Arno. " I have suffered the storms... | |
 | Ossian - 1807 - 546 pages
...Chief mixes his strokes with chief, And man with man ; Steel, clanging, sounds on steel. 420 Helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smokes around....along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light, 425 NEW TRANSLATION. " О paltry son of Arno. " I have suffered the storms of heaven, 400 " Tossed... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1807 - 534 pages
...fall like fparks. of VOL. I. A a " flame " flame that gild the ftormy fate of night. As the " noife of the troubled ocean when roll the waves " on high, as the laft peal of thundering heaven, " fuch is the noife of battle. Though Cormac's f hundred bards were... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1813 - 536 pages
...in " battle. Chief mixes his strokes with chief, and " man with man ; steel sounds on steel, helmets are *' cleft on high. Blood bursts, and smokes around. " Strings murmur on the polished yew. Darts " rush along the sky. Spears fall like sparks of VOL. I. A a " flame " flame that gild the... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 428 pages
...Inisfail. Chief mixes his strokes with chief, and man with man : steel sounds on steel, and helmets are cleft on high : blood bursts and smokes around: strings murmur on the polish'd yew : darts rush along the sky : spears fall like sparks of flame that gild the stormy face... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1823 - 418 pages
...the polish'd yew : darts rush along the sky : spears fall like sparks of flame ,tfeatgild 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. Tho' Cormac's hundred bards were there, feeble were... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...the polish'd yew : darts rush along the sky : spears fall like sparks of flame that gild the stormy face of night. " As the noise of the troubled ocean when roll the waves on high, as the last pal of thundering heaven, such is the noise of battle. Though Cormac's hundred bards were there, feeble... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1831 - 328 pages
...the polished yew : darts rush along the sky : spears fall like sparks of flame that 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 cards were there, feeble were... | |
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