| Hugh Blair - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1763 - 94 pages
...death. " The thirtle (hakes its beard to the wind.. " The flower hangs its heavy head—itfeems to fay, I am covered " with the drops of heaven ; the time of my departure is near, " and the blaft that shall fcatter my leaves." Malvina's death is hinted to him in the mod delicate manner by... | |
| 1765 - 520 pages
...beard to the wind. The flower hangs its heavy «' head — it feems to fay, I am covered with the 'c drops of heaven; the time of. my departure is " near, and the blaft that fhall fcatter my leaves." Malvina's death is hinted to him in the moft delicate manner by... | |
| Bards and bardism - 1765 - 416 pages
...hangs its heavy head, waving, at times, to the gale. Why doft thou awake me, O gale, it feems to fay, I am covered with the drops of heaven ? The time of my fading is near, and the blaft that fhall fcatter my leaves. To-morrow mall the traveller come, he that... | |
| Poetry - 1773 - 466 pages
...its heavy head, waving, at times, to the gale. " Why doft thou awake me, O gale," it feems to fay, " I am covered with the drops of heaven ? The time of my fading is near, the blaft that fhall fcatter my leaves. To-i morrow mall the traveller come ; he that... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1779 - 188 pages
...the manufcript, and in. broken accents continued. " Why doft thou awake me, Q gale? It feems to fay, I am covered with the drops of heaven. The time of my fading is near, and the blaft that fhall fcatter my leaves. To-morrow fhall the traveller come; he... | |
| Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 282 pages
...« The » thiftle shakes its beard to the wind. The flower » hangs its heavy head-it feems to fay, I am >, covered with the drops of heaven ; the time » of my departure is near, and the blaft that « shall fcatter my leaves ». Malvina's death is hinted to him in the moft delicate manner... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1785 - 286 pages
...manufcript, and in broken accents, continued. « Why " Why doft thou awake me, O gale? It .feems to fay, I am covered with the drops of heaven. The time of my fading is near, and the blaft that fhall fcatter my leaves. To-morrow fhall the traveller come ; he... | |
| 1799 - 252 pages
...its heavy head, waving, at times, to the gale. " Why doft thou awake me, O gale?" it feems to fay; " I am covered with the drops of heaven. The time of my fading is near, and the blaft that fhall fcatter my leaves. To-morrow mall the traveller come, lie... | |
| James Anderson - Agriculture - 1800 - 632 pages
...reflected from the waters, and was seen at times gently to move : " Why dost thou awake me, O gale," it seems to say; " I am covered with the drops of heaven? " On the other side, a tufted acacia loaded with its full luxuriance of foliage, still fresh as the... | |
| Bards and bardism - 1803 - 350 pages
...presages of death. " The thistle shakes its beard to the wind. The " flower hangs its heavy head ; it seems to say, I am " covered with the drops of...apotheosis, or ascent to the habitation of heroes, and the introduction to the story which follows from the mention which Ossian supposes the father of... | |
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