 | Ossian - 1870 - 596 pages
...? I feel the sun, 0 Malvina ! leave me to my rest. Perhaps they may conic to my dreams ; I think I hear a feeble voice ! The beam of heaven delights...shine on the grave of Carthon : I feel it warm around ! () thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, () sun ! thy... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1870 - 496 pages
...employed with admirable effect in the delivery of a passage that is solemn or sublime. EXAMPLES. 1. 0 thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my...whence are thy beams, O sun, thy everlasting light ? OSSIAN. 2. 'Tis midnight's holy hour, and silence now Is brooding, like a gentle spirit, o'er The... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - American literature - 1871 - 342 pages
...trim her hull ! How slim her tall taper masts ! What a beautiful dancing fairy ! IV. Orotund. 1. 0 thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! whence are thy beams, 0 Sun ! thy everlasting light 1 2. And lo ! from the assembled crowd There rose a shout prolonged and... | |
 | 1871 - 630 pages
...which the perfect rhythm would be marred by the useless meretriciousness of rhyme? Oh thou that rollost above, Round as the shield of my fathers, Whence are thy beams, oh sun, Thine everlasting light ? Thou earnest forth in thine awful beauty, And the stars hide themselves... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - Celtic literature - 1878 - 232 pages
...men should succeed in the room of such heroes ! [Compare again apostrophe to the sun in Cart/ion, " O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers !" and to the moon in Darthula, "Daughter of Heaven, fair art thou ! the silence of thy face is pleasant."]... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers (Secondary) - 1872 - 490 pages
...admirable effect in the delivery of a passage that is solemn OJT sublime. EXAMPLES. 1. 0 thou that rollesl above, round as the shield of my fathers: whence are thy beams, 0 sun, thy everlasting light ? OSSIAX. 2. 'Tis midnight's holy hour, and silence now Is brooding, like... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - Elocution - 1872 - 460 pages
...will be frozen into annihilation together, ere one free Switzer will acknowledge a foreign master. l. O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers I whence are thy beams, O sun I thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty: the stars... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1872 - 322 pages
...you. A good cause makes a stout heart and a strong arm. LESSON LXXXII. OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN. 1. O THOU that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers' ! Whence are thy beams, O surf ! thy everlasting light* ! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty : the stars hide themselves in... | |
 | Enoch Fitch Burr - Religion - 1873 - 320 pages
...apostrophes we address to them ? Ho, Father Tiber ! Ho, Mother Earth ! Ho, crescent Astarte ! " Ho, thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers — whence are thy beams, O Sun, thine everlasting light ! " And is there really nothing to hinder us from getting satisfactory answer... | |
 | Enoch Fitch Burr - Evolution - 1873 - 360 pages
...apostrophes we address to them ? Ho, Father Tiber ! Ho, Mother Earth ! Ho, crescent Astarte ! " Ho, thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers — whence are thy beams, O Sun, thine everlasting light ! " And is there really nothing to hinder us from getting satisfactory answer... | |
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O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, 0 sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. 
