The poems of Ossian, &c. containing the poetical works of J. Macpherson, with notes and illustr. by M. Laing, Band 11805 |
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... light they throw on the ancient state of Scotland and Ireland , than they are for their poetical merit . Succeeding generations founded on them all their traditions concerning that period ; and they mag- nified or varied them , in ...
... light they throw on the ancient state of Scotland and Ireland , than they are for their poetical merit . Succeeding generations founded on them all their traditions concerning that period ; and they mag- nified or varied them , in ...
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... light , in terms that might flatter the vanity of one fond of fame . In a convenient indif- ference for a literary reputation , the author hears praise without being elevated , and ribaldry , without being de- pressed . He has ...
... light , in terms that might flatter the vanity of one fond of fame . In a convenient indif- ference for a literary reputation , the author hears praise without being elevated , and ribaldry , without being de- pressed . He has ...
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... light . ADDISON . And sparkle , like the sea round the boat of night ; " a better translation than Addison's , of Clara repercusso reddebant lumina Phoebo ; but derived apparently from Dryden's Virgil . ÆN . v . 186 . Sparkles the briny ...
... light . ADDISON . And sparkle , like the sea round the boat of night ; " a better translation than Addison's , of Clara repercusso reddebant lumina Phoebo ; but derived apparently from Dryden's Virgil . ÆN . v . 186 . Sparkles the briny ...
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... 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 and smokes ...
... 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 and smokes ...
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... light- ning above them ? ] MILTON's Encounter of Satan and Death . Par . Lost . ii . 714 . Such a frown Each cast at other , as when two black clouds --- With heaven's artillery fraught , come rattling on Over the Caspian . So frowned ...
... light- ning above them ? ] MILTON's Encounter of Satan and Death . Par . Lost . ii . 714 . Such a frown Each cast at other , as when two black clouds --- With heaven's artillery fraught , come rattling on Over the Caspian . So frowned ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Æneid arms art thou Balclutha bards battle beam behold bend blast blood breast Cairbar Calmar car-borne Carril Carthon cave chace chief clouds Comala Cona Connal Cromla Cuthullin Dar-thula Dargo dark daugh daughter death distant dost thou Earse echoing edit Erin eyes fame fathers feast feeble fell Fillan Fingal flame friends Gaul ghost grey grief hair hall harp hear heard heath heaven heroes Highlander hill imitation Irish ballad king of Morven king of swords Lathmon lift light Lochlin maid meteor midst mighty mist moon Morna Morni morning mountain mournful Nathos night o'er Oscar Ossian pale poem POPE's Iliad renown rise roar rock rolled rose rushed Ryno sails Selma shield side sigh silent song Song of Solomon sons soul sound spear storm stream strength Swaran sword tears Temora thee tomb Torman trembling Ullin Uthal vale voice waves wind youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 382 - Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me! I fondly dream — Had ye been there...
Seite 344 - 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!
Seite 10 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Seite 106 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Seite 305 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest uniil water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Seite 462 - Weep, thou father of Morar! weep; but thy son heareth thee not. Deep is the sleep of the dead; low their pillow of dust. No more shall he hear thy voice; no more awake at thy call. When shall it be morn in the grave, to bid the slumberer awake?
Seite 195 - He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Seite 237 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Seite 398 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Seite 384 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out.