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Ossian. ODLEIAN LIBRARY 10 FFB 1025 CXFORD ADVERTISEMENT . IT may appear an invidious task , but.
Ossian. ODLEIAN LIBRARY 10 FFB 1025 CXFORD ADVERTISEMENT . IT may appear an invidious task , but.
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Ossian. ADVERTISEMENT . IT may appear an invidious task , but it is no more than the justice which is due to ourselves , as well as the duty that we owe to the Public , to make some remarks on ano- ther edition of THE POEMS OF OSSIAN ...
Ossian. ADVERTISEMENT . IT may appear an invidious task , but it is no more than the justice which is due to ourselves , as well as the duty that we owe to the Public , to make some remarks on ano- ther edition of THE POEMS OF OSSIAN ...
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... appears cause to be- lieve , that numbers who listened with delight to " the voice of CONA , " would have been happy , if , seeing their own good , they had been content with these Poems accompanied by DR . BLAIR's judgment , and sought ...
... appears cause to be- lieve , that numbers who listened with delight to " the voice of CONA , " would have been happy , if , seeing their own good , they had been content with these Poems accompanied by DR . BLAIR's judgment , and sought ...
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... appear by their summing up . After producing or pointing to a large body of mixed evidence , and taking for granted the exist- ence , at some period , of an abundance of Ossianic poetry , it comes to the question , " How far that ...
... appear by their summing up . After producing or pointing to a large body of mixed evidence , and taking for granted the exist- ence , at some period , of an abundance of Ossianic poetry , it comes to the question , " How far that ...
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... appear so convinced of their insufficiency , that they pro- nounce the question put to rest for ever . But we greatly distrust that any literary question , possessing a single inch of debatable ground to stand upon , will be suffered to ...
... appear so convinced of their insufficiency , that they pro- nounce the question put to rest for ever . But we greatly distrust that any literary question , possessing a single inch of debatable ground to stand upon , will be suffered to ...
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Page 194 - 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 122 - 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 293 - A tree with scarce a leaf, long grass which whistles in the wind, mark to the hunter's eye the grave of the mighty Morar. Morar! thou art low indeed. Thou hast no mother to mourn thee; no maid with her tears of love. Dead is she that brought thee forth. Fallen is the daughter of Morglan.
Page 189 - Dost thou not behold, Malvina, a rock with its head of heath? Three aged pines bend from its face; green is the narrow plain at its feet ; there the flower of the mountain grows, and shakes its white head in the breeze. The thistle is there alone, shedding its aged beard. Two stones, half sunk in the ground, show their heads of moss. The deer of the mountain avoids the place, for he beholds a dim ghost standing there.
Page 290 - Salgar! hast thou slain my brother? Dear -were ye both to me! what shall I say in your praise? Thou wert fair on the hill among thousands! he was terrible in fight.
Page 204 - 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 256 - Oscar; but they only came by halves to our ears; they were dark as the tales of other times, before the light of the song arose. He slowly vanished, like a mist that melts on the sunny hill.
Page 294 - The song comes, with its music, to melt and please the soul. It is like soft mist, that, rising from a lake, pours on the silent vale; the green flowers are filled with dew, but the sun returns in his strength, and the mist is gone.
Page 120 - 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 86 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes, There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?