| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1765 - 534 pages
...rufh along the fky : fpears fall like fparks of flame that gild the ftormy face of night. As the noife of the troubled ocean when roll the waves on high, as the laft peal of thundering heaven ; fuch is the noife of battle. Though Cormac's hundred bards were there,... | |
| Poetry - 1773 - 432 pages
...rufh along the fky. Spears 'fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of night. As the noife of the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high. As the laft peal of thunder in heaven, fuch is the din of war ! Though Cormac's hundred bards were there,... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1774 - 668 pages
...along the fky. Spears fall like fparks of flame that gild the " florrny face of night. As the noife of the troubled ocean when " roll the waves on high, as the laft peal of thundering heaven, " fuch is the noife of battle. Tho' Cormac's hundred bards were " there,... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1778 - 532 pages
...along the fky. " Spears fall like fparks of flame that " gild the ftormy face of night. As the " noife of the troubled ocean when roll " the waves on high, as the laft peal of " thundering heaven, fuch is the noife of " battle. Tho' Cormac's hundred bards " were... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1778 - 550 pages
...along the fky. " Spears fall like fparks of flame that " gild the ftormy face of night. As the " noife of the troubled ocean when roll " the waves on high, as the laft peal of " thundering heaven, fuch is the noife of " battle. Tho' Cormac's hundred bards " were... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788 - 548 pages
...rufh along the iky : fpears fall like fparks of fiame that gild the ftormy face of night. As the noife of the troubled ocean when roll the waves on high, as the laft peal of thundering heaven, fuch is the noife of battle. Tho* Cormac's hundred bards were there,... | |
| James Macpherson - 1803 - 386 pages
...yews. Darts rush along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of night. As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the...peal of thunder in heaven, such is the din of war ! Though Cormac's hundred bards were there, to give the fight to song ; feeble was the voice of a hundred... | |
| Bards and bardism - 1803 - 352 pages
..."steel. Helmets are cleft on high; blood bursts and " smoaks around.—As the troubled noise of the " ocean, when roll the waves on high; as the last " peal of the thunder of heaven, such is the noise of " battle."—" As roll a thousand waves to the rock, "... | |
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