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" 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. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain, for he beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair flows on... "
The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical - Page 63
by Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823
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Annual Register, Volume 4

Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 648 pages
...thou looked in thy beauty, from the clouds, and laughed at the dorm. But to Offian, thou looked in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair flows on the Eadern clouds, or thou trembled at the gates of the wed. But thou art perhaps, like me, for a feafon,...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 4

History - 1762 - 618 pages
...thou lookeft in thy beauty, from the clouds, and laughelt at the ftorm. But to Oflian, thou lookeft in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more ; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eaftern clouds, or thou trembleft at the gates of the weft. But thou art perhaps, like me, for a feafon,...
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Annual Register, Volume 4

Edmund Burke - History - 1762 - 666 pages
...lookeil in thy beauty, from the clouds, ai.d laugheft at the ilorm. But to Oflian, thou lookeft in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more ; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eaftern clouds, or thou tremhleft at the gates of the weft. But thou art perhaps, like me, for a feafon,...
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The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal

Bards and bardism - 1765 - 416 pages
...thou lookeft in thy beauty, from the clouds, and laugheft at the ftorm. But to Offian, thou lookeft in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more ; whether thy yellow hair ftows on the eaftern clouds, or thou trembleft at the gates of the weft. But thou art perhaps, like...
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The Poems of Ossian, Volume 1

Poetry - 1773 - 432 pages
...thou lookeft in thy beauty, from the clouds, and laugheft at the ftorm. But to Offian, thou lookeft in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more ; whether thy yellow hair ftows on the eaftern clouds, or thou trembleft at the gates of the weft. But thou art perhaps, like...
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The Mirror: no. 1-36, Jan. 23, 1779-May 19, 1779

Literature - 1781 - 316 pages
...lookeft in thy beauty from the clouds, " and laugheft at the ftorm. But to Oflian " thou lookeft in vain ; for he beholds thy *' beams no more ; whether thy yellow hair " flows on the eaftern clouds, or thou trem" bleft at the gates of the weft. But thou art, " perhaps, like me, for...
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The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, Volume 2

Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 274 pages
...lookeft in thy beauty, from the clouds , and laugheft at the ftorm. But ro Oflian , thou lookeft in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more ; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eaftern clouds , or thou crembleft at the gates of the weft. But thou art perhaps , like me , for a...
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The Poems of Ossian, Volume 1

Celts - 1784 - 432 pages
...thou lookeft in thy beauty, from the clouds, and laugheft at the ftorm. But to Offian, thou lookeft in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eaftern clouds, or thou trembleft at the gates of the weft. But thou art perhaps, like me, for a feafon,...
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The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson, Volume 1

Ossian - 1790 - 446 pages
...thou looked in thy beanty, from the clouds, and laughed at the ftorm.^ But to Offian, thou lookeft in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more ; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eaftern clouds, or thou trembleft at the gates of the weft. But thou art perhaps, like me, for a feafon,...
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 41

English literature - 1779 - 756 pages
...lookefl in thy beauty ¡'rum the clouds^ and hughelt at the llorín. But to Offi.tr» thou looked in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more, whether thy yellow hair flows ou the Ëaftern clouds, or thou» " 172 Anecdote of Charles V. trcmbleft at the gates of the Weft....
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