 But sorrow wastes the mournful, O daughter of Toscar ! and their days are few! They fall away, like the flower on which the sun hath looked in his strength after the mildew has passed over it, when its head is heavy with the drops of night.  An Analysis of the Galic Language - Page 146by William Shaw - 1778 - 171 pagesFull view - About this book
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...Fingal. There is a joy in grief when peace dwells with the forrowful. But they are wafted with mourning, O daughter of Tofcar, and their days are few. They...in his ftrength, after the mildew has pafled over it, and its head is heavy with the drops of night. Fingal, The fight obtained of the city of Jerufalem... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1765 - 416 pages
...There is a joy in grief when peace dwells in the breaft of the fad. But forrow waftes the mournful, O daughter of Tofcar, and their days are few. They fall away, like the ftower on which the fun looks in his ftrength after the mildew has pafTed over it, and its head is... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1772 - 398 pages
...Fingal. There is a joy in grief when peace dwells with the forrowful. But they are wafted with mourning, O daughter of Tofcar, and their days are few. They...in his ftrength, after the mildew has pafled over it, and its head is heavy with the drops of night. Fingal. The fight obtained of the city of Jerufalem... | |
 | Poetry - 1773 - 432 pages
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 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 274 pages
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 | Celts - 1784 - 432 pages
...There is a joy in grief when peace dwells in the breaft of the fad. But forrow waftes the mournful, O daughter of Tofcar» and their days are few ! They fall away, like the flower on which the fun hath looked in his ftrength after the mildew has pafled over it, when its head is heavy with the drops... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788 - 590 pages
...Fingal. There is a joy in grief when peace dwells with the forrowful. But they are wafted with mourning O daughter of Tofcar, and their days are few. They...the fun looks in his ftrength, after the mildew has patted over it, and its head is heavy with the drops of night. Fiitgaf. Th«; The fight obtained of... | |
 | Ossian - 1790 - 446 pages
...There is a joy in grief when peace dwells in the breaft of the fad. But forrow waftes the mournful, O daughter of Tofcar ! and their days are few ! They fall away, like the flower on which the fun hath looked in his ftrength after the mildew has paffed over it, when its head is heavy with the drops... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 434 pages
...There is a joy in grief when peace dwells with " the forrowful. But they are walled with mourn" ing, О daughter of Tofcar, and their days are " few. They...away like the flower on which " the fun looks in his (Irength, after the mildew " has paffed over it, and its head is heavy with the " drops of night."... | |
 | 1799 - 252 pages
...There is a joy in grief when peace dwells in the breaft of the fad. But iorrow waftes the mournful, O daughter of Tofcar, and their days are few. They...which the fun looks in his ftrength after the mildew lias pafled over it, and its head is heavy with the drops of night. Attend to the tale of Offian, O... | |
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