 She came in all her beauty ; like the moon from the cloud of the east. Loveliness was around her as light. Her steps were like the music of songs. She saw the youth and loved him. He was the stolen sigh of her soul. Her blue eyes rolled on him in secret...  The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, - Page 661779Full view - About this book
 | Hugh Blair - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1763 - 94 pages
...fhower is on the field *." A very oppofite ufe is mzfe of the moon in the defcription of Agandecca: " She came in all her " beauty, like the moon from the cloud of the Eaft -f-." Hope, fucceeded by difappointment, is " joy rifing on her face, and forrow " returning again,... | |
 | Poetry - 1773 - 432 pages
...daughter of Lochlin ; and Morven 's f" highdefcended chief. The daughter of Lochlin overheard. She left the hall of her fecret figh ! She came in all...Lovelinefs was around her as light. Her fteps were the mufic of fongs. She •f- All the North-weft coaft of Scotland probably went of old under the name... | |
 | Poetry - 1773 - 466 pages
...feemf feems united with the majefty of Virgil. " TH<? " daughter of the fnow overheard, and left the ff hall of her fecret .figh. She came in all her " beauty ; like the moon from the cloud of the " Eaft. Lowlhsefs was around her as> light. " Her fleps were like the mufic of fongs. She " faw the youth and... | |
 | 1785 - 456 pages
...midnight-fhower is on the " field." A very oppofite ufe is made of the moon in the defcription of Agandecca : " She " came in all her beauty, like the moon from " the cloud of the Eaft." Hope, fucceeded by difappointment, is " joy rifing on her face, and " forrow returning again, like... | |
 | Robert Henry - Great Britain - 1788 - 518 pages
...Cona. He praifed " the daughter of the fnow, and Morven's high " defcended chief. The daughter .of the fnow " overheard, and left the hall of her fecret..." She came in all her beauty, like the moon " from her cloud in the eaft. Lovelinefs was " around her as light. Her fteps were like the " mufic of fongs.... | |
 | Robert Henry - Great Britain - 1789 - 644 pages
...Cona. He praifed the daughter " of the fnow, and Morven's high defcended chief, " The daughter of the fnow overheard, and left the " hall of her fecret figh. She came in all her beauty, " h'ke the moon from her cloud in the eaft. Lovelinefs " was around her as light. Her fteps were like... | |
 | Ossian - 1790 - 446 pages
...the daughter of Lochlin; and Morven's * high-defcended chief. The daughter of Lochlin overheard. She left the hall of her fecret figh ! She came in all her beauty, * All the North-weft coaft of Scotland probably went of old under tlie name of Morven, which fignifies... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1790 - 344 pages
...of Tibullus feems united with the majefty of Virgil. " The " daughter of the fnow overheard, and kft the " hall of her fecret figh. She came in all her " beauty; «t beauty; like the moon from the cloud of the ** Eaft. Lovelinefs was around her as light. '* Her... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 464 pages
...simplicity and affection ? " The daughter of the snow overheard, and left the hall of her secret sigh. She came in all her beauty ; like the moon from the cloud of the east. Loveliness was around hes as light. Her steps were like the music of songs. She saw the youth,... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - Gowrie Conspiracy, 1600 - 1800 - 500 pages
...Milton and Tibullus, to which Grainger's recent tranflation had attracted the Celtic bard. " She 4* came in all her beauty, like the moon from the cloud...Lovelinefs was around her as light* Her, " fteps were the muf1c of fongs," i. 260. " Awe moved •( around her (tately fteps ; like two ftars were her "... | |
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