| Bards and bardism - 1803 - 350 pages
...poet. " As autumn's dark storms pour •" from two echoing hills, towards each other, ap" proached the heroes. As two dark streams from " high rocks...rough, and dark in battle, meet Lochlin " and Inisfail. Chief mixed his strokes with chief, " and man with man. Steel clanging, sounded on " steel. Helmets... | |
| Bards and bardism - 1803 - 352 pages
...Steel clanging, sounded on "steel. Helmets are cleft on high; blood bursts and " smoaks around.—As the troubled noise of the " ocean, when roll the waves...peal of the thunder of heaven, such is the noise of " battle."—" As roll a thousand waves to the rock, " so Swaran's host came on ; as meets a rock a... | |
| James Macpherson - 1803 - 386 pages
...sky. Spears fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of night. As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high. As the last peal of thunder in heaven, such is the din of war ! Though Cormac's hundred bards were there, to give the fight... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...glowing rapidity which characterises our poet. " As autumn's dark storms pour from two echomg " hills, towards each other approached the heroes. As " two..." and roar on the plain ; loud, rough, and dark in bat" tie, meet Lochiin and Inisfail. Chief mixes his " strokes with chief, and man with man. Steel... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...sky. Spears fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of night. As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high. As the last peal of thunder in heaven 5°, such is the din of war ! Though Cormac's hundred bards were 49 Blood bursts... | |
| Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...rapidity which characterises our poet. " As " autumn's dark storms pour from two echoing hills, to" wards each other, approached the heroes. As two dark " streams...rough, and dark in battle, meet Lochlin " and Inisfail. Chief mixed his strokes with chief, and " man with man. Steel clanging, sounded on steel. " Helmets... | |
| Ossian - 1806 - 364 pages
...toward each other approached the heroes. Like two deep streams from high rocki meeting, mixing, roaring on the plain; loud, rough and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Innis-rail. Chief mixes his strokes with chief, and man with man; steel, clanging, sounds on steel.... | |
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