| Ossian - 1845 - 546 pages
...travelluig above, and dark brown night sits on half the hill. Through the breaches of the tempests look forth the dim faces of ghosts. So fierce, so...so terrible, rushed on the sons of Erin. The chief, like a whale of ocean, whom all his hillows pursue, poured valour forth as a stream, rolling his might... | |
| Bards and bardism - 1847 - 400 pages
...darkens around the beams of my steel!" As rushes a stream of foam from the dark shady deep of Cromla, when the thunder is travelling above, and dark-brown...tempest look forth the dim faces of ghosts: So fierce, iso vast, so terrible, rushed on the sons of Erin. The chief, like a whale of ocean, whom all his billows... | |
| 1854 - 386 pages
...wander and shriek. Through the high air the death-hounds pursue the wild huntsman in endless chase.* " Dark-brown night sits on half the hill. Through the...of the tempest look forth the dim faces of ghosts." " "Tis now the very witching time of night ; When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion... | |
| 1857 - 536 pages
...darkens around the beams of my steel ! I As rushes a stream of foam from the dark shady deep of Cromla, when the thunder is travelling above, and dark-brown night sits on half the hill. Through tho breaches of the tempest look forth the dim faces of ghosts. So fierce, so vast, so terrible, rushed... | |
| 1862 - 542 pages
...you the sensation. Or again, " As rushes a stream of foam " from the dark shady steep of Croinla, " when the thunder is travelling above, " and dark-brown night sits on half the " hill." Or again, " From their hundred " streams came the tribes to grassy " Colglancrona." Or, describing... | |
| 1862 - 794 pages
...you the sensation. Or again, " As rushes a stream of foam " from the dark shady steep of Cromla, " when the thunder is travelling above, " and dark-brown night sits on half the " hill-" Or again, " From their hundred " streams came the tribes to grassy " Colglancrona." Or, describing... | |
| Ossian - 1868 - 190 pages
...unb bat bemgemäfj überfefct: „As rushes a stream of foam from the dark shady deep (!) ofCromla: when the thunder is travelling above, and dark-brown night sits on half the hill; trough the breaches of the tempest look forth the dim faces of ghosts." (SBie ein ©trom »on ©фaum... | |
| Ossian - 1870 - 596 pages
...Beneath his going shakes the shore. As rashes a stream of foam from the dark shady deep of Cromla, •when the thunder is travelling above, and dark-brown...Through the breaches of the tempest look forth the (lira faces of ghosts. So fierce, so vast, so terrible rushed on the sons of Erin. The chief, like... | |
| Scotland - 1874 - 772 pages
...foam from the dark, shady deep (!) of Cromla ; when the thunder is travelling above, and dark, brown night sits on half the hill ; through the breaches...of the tempest look forth the dim faces of ghosts." In truth, to these misunderstandings — to this destruction of the unity of imagery — to this sad... | |
| George Tobias Flom - English language - 1900 - 464 pages
...such a passage as the following : "As rushes a stream of foam from the dark shady deep of Cromla . . . Through the breaches of the tempest look forth the dim faces of ghosts. So fierce," etc.' Likewise Ossianic is this scene (pp. 207-8): . . Wenn der Sturm der Nacht Mil alien seinen Winden... | |
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