Works of Ossian: Vol. IV.1783 |
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... bard before me with fongs ; I came into the hall of Crothar . There fat the hero amidst the arms of his fathers , but his eyes had failed . His gray locks waved around a ftaff , on which the warrior leaned . He hum- med the fong of ...
... bard before me with fongs ; I came into the hall of Crothar . There fat the hero amidst the arms of his fathers , but his eyes had failed . His gray locks waved around a ftaff , on which the warrior leaned . He hum- med the fong of ...
Page 47
... bards raise the fong . Great is he that is within my walls , fons of ecchoing Croma ! The feaft is fpread . The harp is heard ; and joy is in the hall . But it was joy covering a figh , that darkly dwelt in every breaft . It was like ...
... bards raise the fong . Great is he that is within my walls , fons of ecchoing Croma ! The feaft is fpread . The harp is heard ; and joy is in the hall . But it was joy covering a figh , that darkly dwelt in every breaft . It was like ...
Page 49
... bright-- ened in his foul . The people gather to the hall ; the found of the fhells is heard . Then harps are ftrung ; } five bards advance , and fing , by turns D five A POE М. 49 the youths of Croma: let me meet him, ...
... bright-- ened in his foul . The people gather to the hall ; the found of the fhells is heard . Then harps are ftrung ; } five bards advance , and fing , by turns D five A POE М. 49 the youths of Croma: let me meet him, ...
Page 50
... bards . The pieces exftant of that kind fhew more of the good ear , than The of the poetical genius of their authors . translator has only met with one poem of this fort , which he thinks worthy of being preferved . It is a thousand ...
... bards . The pieces exftant of that kind fhew more of the good ear , than The of the poetical genius of their authors . translator has only met with one poem of this fort , which he thinks worthy of being preferved . It is a thousand ...
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... BARD . The wind is up . The fhower defcends . The fpirit of the mountain fhrieks . Woods fall from high . Windows flap . The growing river roars . The traveller attempts the ford . Hark that shriek ! he dies : The ftorm drives the horse ...
... BARD . The wind is up . The fhower defcends . The fpirit of the mountain fhrieks . Woods fall from high . Windows flap . The growing river roars . The traveller attempts the ford . Hark that shriek ! he dies : The ftorm drives the horse ...
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