The Poems of Ossian: To which are Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse and Dissertation on the Æra and Poems of OssianPhillips, Sampson,, 1857 - 492 pages |
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... gray mist on the sides of the rocks ; a blast from the north on the plain , a traveller in distress , and he slow . " The comparison may be made , by turning to the end of Mr. Macpherson's version of " Carthon , " be- ginning " O thou ...
... gray mist on the sides of the rocks ; a blast from the north on the plain , a traveller in distress , and he slow . " The comparison may be made , by turning to the end of Mr. Macpherson's version of " Carthon , " be- ginning " O thou ...
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... Gray on the bank , and far from men , half - covered , by ancient pines , from the wind , a lonely pile exalts its head , long shaken by the storms of the north . To this fled Sigurd , fierce in fight , from Harold the leader of armies ...
... Gray on the bank , and far from men , half - covered , by ancient pines , from the wind , a lonely pile exalts its head , long shaken by the storms of the north . To this fled Sigurd , fierce in fight , from Harold the leader of armies ...
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... . - White wandering down his side A thousand torrents , gleaming as they guide , Unite below , and , pouring through the plain , Hurry the troubled Torno to the main . Gray , on the bank , remote from human kind 4 * PREFACE . 4 )
... . - White wandering down his side A thousand torrents , gleaming as they guide , Unite below , and , pouring through the plain , Hurry the troubled Torno to the main . Gray , on the bank , remote from human kind 4 * PREFACE . 4 )
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... Gray , on the bank , remote from human kind , By aged pines half - shelter'd from the wind , A homely mansion rose , of antique form , For ages batter'd by the polar storm . To this , fierce Sigurd fled from Norway's lord , When fortune ...
... Gray , on the bank , remote from human kind , By aged pines half - shelter'd from the wind , A homely mansion rose , of antique form , For ages batter'd by the polar storm . To this , fierce Sigurd fled from Norway's lord , When fortune ...
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... gray stones . " To die unlamented by a bard , was deemed so great a misfortune as even to disturb their ghosts in another state . " They wander in thick mists beside the reedy lake ; but never shall they rise , without the song , to the ...
... gray stones . " To die unlamented by a bard , was deemed so great a misfortune as even to disturb their ghosts in another state . " They wander in thick mists beside the reedy lake ; but never shall they rise , without the song , to the ...
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arms arose art thou Atha Balclutha bards battle beam behold bend blast blood blue streams Cairbar Calmar car-borne Carril Carthon Cathmor cave chief cloud Comala Cona Connal Cormac Cromla Cuthullin dark daughter death distant dost thou dwelling echoing Erin eyes fame fathers feast feeble fell field Fillan Fingal fled Foldath friends Gaul ghosts gilt gleaming gray grief hair hall hand harp hear heard heath heaven heroes hill Iliad Ireland king of Morven king of swords Lego lift light Lochlin maid midst mighty mist moon Morni morocco mossy mournful muslin Nathos night Oscar Ossian poems poet poetical poetry race raised renown rise roar rock rolled rose rushed Selma shield side sigh silent song sons soul sound spear Starno steel steps storm strangers stream Swaran sword tears Temora thee tomb Trenmor Ullin Uthal vale voice warriors waves wind youth
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Page 231 - When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm.
Page 231 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, O 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. But thou thyself movest alone : who can be a companion of thy course!
Page 161 - I was a lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches round me : but thy death came like a blast from the desert, and laid my green head low : the spring returned with its showers, but no leaf of mine arose.
Page 232 - Ossian thou lookest in vain, for he beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds, or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art perhaps, like me, for a season; thy years will have an end. Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds careless of the voice of the morning. Exult then, 0 sun, in the strength of thy youth!
Page 164 - The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters : but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
Page 140 - The flower hangs its heavy head, waving, at times, to the gale. Why dost thou awake me, O gale, it seems to say, I am covered with the drops of heaven? The time of my fading is near, and the blast that shall scatter my leaves. Tomorrow shall the traveller come, he that saw me in my beauty shall come; his eyes will search the field, but they will not find me?
Page 223 - They have but fallen before us : for one day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day ; yet a few years and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield.
Page 166 - The land through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it, are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants : and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Page 288 - ... mind the night, when all my children fell; when Arindal the mighty fell; when Daura the lovely failed! Daura, my daughter! thou wert fair; fair as the moon on Fura; white as the driven snow; sweet as the breathing gale. Arindal, thy bow was strong. Thy spear was swift in the field. Thy look was like mist on the wave: thy shield, a red cloud in a storm.
Page 367 - DAUGHTER of heaven, fair art thou ! the silence of thy face is pleasant ! Thou comest forth in loveliness. The stars attend thy blue course in the east. The clouds rejoice in thy presence, O moon! they brighten their dark-brown sides. Who is like thee in heaven, light of the silent night? The stars are ashamed in thy presence. They turn away their sparkling eyes. Whither dost thou retire from thy course, when the darkness of thy countenance grows? hast thou thy hall, like Ossian ? dwellest thou in...