| Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...hills. Many fell by thy arm; they were consumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow! Thy face was...like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud wind is laid. Narrow is thy dwelling now! dark the place of thine... | |
| Ann Doherty - 1812 - 356 pages
...a late hour did the exhausted chieftains retire to repose. CHAP. VIII. ' But when thou didst return from war, " How peaceful was thy brow ! " Thy face was like the sun after rain." Ouitn. ON the morning succeeding this glorious day, a day in which so many heroes had written in characters... | |
| Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...Many fell by thy arm — they were consumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was...like the moon in the silence of night— calm as the breast of the lake, when the loud wind is hushed into repose. Narrow is thy dwelling now — dark the... | |
| William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...hills. Many fell by thy arm; they were consumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was...like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud wind is laid. " Narrow is thy dwelling now ! dark the place of thine... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...hills. Many fell by thy arm! they were consumed in tin; flames of thy wrath. But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after raiu ; like the moon in the silence of night ; calm aa the breast of the lake when the loud wind IB... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...were consumed ia the flames of thy wrath. But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was tliy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain — like the moon in the silence of night— calm as the breast of the lake, when the loud wind • js hushed into repose. Narrow is thy dwelling nowdark the... | |
| Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...thy wrath was as the storm : thy voice was like thunder over distant hills. But hen thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain : like the moon n the silence of night, calm as he breast of the lake when the oud winds are laid. — Ossian. Dratfis.... | |
| 1834 - 438 pages
...hills. Many fell by thy arm ; they were consumed by the flames of thy wrath. Hut when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was...like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud wind is laid. Narrow is thy dwelling now ! dark the place of thine... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...hills. Many fell by thy arm ; they were consumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thon didst return able and idle; his father died in 1770, and he then began to form the plan of an independent breast of the lake when the loud wind is laid. Narrow is thy dwelling now! dark the place of thine... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...hills. Many fell by thy arm ; they were consumed in the fiâmes of thy wrath. But when thou didst return from war breast of the lake when the loud wind is laid. Narrow is thy dwelling now ! dark the place of thine... | |
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