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The Poems of Ossian - Page 223
1773
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SEVERAL HANDS - 1762 - 536 pages
...lightening pours from tbeir fides of fteel. They came like ftreams from the mountains ; each ruftied roaring from his hill. Bright are the chiefs of battle...armour of their fathers. Gloomy and dark their heroes followed, like the gathering of the rainy clouds behind the red meteors of heaven. The founds of crashing:...
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The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal

Bards and bardism - 1765 - 416 pages
...lightning pours from their fides of fteel. - They came like ftreams from the mountains ; each rufhed roaring from his hill. Bright are the chiefs of battle...armour of their fathers. Gloomy and dark their heroes followed, like the gathering of the rainy clouds behind the red meteors of heaven. - The founds of...
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The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, Volume 4

Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 282 pages
...from his climare, are a fertile fource of imagery to him. « The warriors folio,. wed their chiefs, like the gathering of the rainy » clouds, behind the red meteors of heaven >,. An army retreating without coming to action, ilikened to •i clouds, that having long threarened...
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The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson, Volume 1

Ossian - 1790 - 446 pages
...hands are on their fwords. Lightning pours from their fides of fteel. They come like ftreams from the mountains ; each rufhes roaring from his hill. Bright...Unequal burfts the fong of battle. Rocking Cromla * echoes round. On Lena's dufky heath they ftand, like mift that fhades the hills of autumn : when...
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 24

English literature - 1762 - 762 pages
...fide; of lleel. They caine like dreams from the mountains; each rulhed roaring from his hill. Blight are the chiefs of battle in the armour of their fathers. Gloomy and dark their heroes followed, like the gathering of the rainy clouds behind the red meteors of heaven. The found? of cradling...
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The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson, Volume 2

Ossian - 1801 - 344 pages
...hands are on their fwords. Lightning pours from their fides of Heel. They come like ftreams from the mountains; each rufhes roaring from his hill. Bright...clouds behind the red meteors of heaven. The founds of crafting arms afcend. The grey dogs howl between. Unequal burfts the fong of battle. Rocking Cromla...
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Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, Appointed to ...

Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1805 - 532 pages
...chiefs, in the pride of their former eeds !-i-They come like streams fromthemountains ; each rushes roaring from his hill. Bright are the chiefs of battle,...heroes follow, like the gathering of the rainy clouds («) Flet. p. 190. (-) Kenn. p. 141. 1. st. j(j) W. p. MJ. st. K (*) ld. p. 144. st. 4. (.:) Sir Jo....
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Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, Appointed to ...

Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1805 - 532 pages
...chiefs, in the pride of their former eeds ! — They come like streams fromthemountains ; each rushes roaring from his hill. Bright are the chiefs of battle,...heroes follow, like the gathering of the rainy clouds (11) Flet. p. 190. (*) Kenn. p. 141. 1. tt. [(y) Id. p. 145. st. 1. (z) Id p. 144. ••!. 4. (a)...
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The poems of Ossian, &c. containing the poetical works of J ..., Volume 1

Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...invention. 11 Lightning pours from their sides of steel.] Iliad, ii. 457. the mountains ; each rushes roaring from his hill. Bright are the chiefs of battle,...their heroes follow, like the gathering of- the rainy clouds14 behind the red meteors of heaven. The sounds of crashing arms ascend. The grey dogs howl between....
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Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, Appointed to ...

Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1805 - 526 pages
...fonn» eeds ! — They come like streams fromthemountains ; each rushes roaring from his hill. Bright we the chiefs of battle, In the •armour of their fathers....heroes follow, like the gathering of the rainy clouds («) Flet. p. ISO. (*) Kenn. p. 141. L it. tfj) Id. p. 145. st 1(z) Id. p. 144. it. 4. (a) Sir Jo-Sincl.p....
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