 Weep on the rocks of roaring winds, O maid of Inistore! Bend thy fair head over the waves, thou lovelier than the ghost of the hills; when it moves, in a sunbeam, at noon, over the silence of Morven! He is fallen! thy youth is low! pale beneath the sword...  Annual Register - Page 271edited by - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1762 - 666 pages
...thou friends, as they fee them dim on ** • ^i ^1 ^I.«A ~f *i — u;if. *i. „ — *i. xi _:~i... i fairer than the ghoft of the hills ; When it moves...filence of Morven. He is fallen ! thy youth is low ; the heath. Now night conceals the chiefs in her clouds, and ends the terrible fight." As moft of... | |
 | Poetry - 1773 - 432 pages
...the times, that the fouls of heroes thou lovelier than the ghoft of the hills ; when it moves, in a fun-beam, at noon, over the filence of Morven ! He...fallen ! thy youth is low ! pale beneath the fword of Cuthullin ! No more fhall valour raife thy love to match the biood of kings. Trenar, graceful Trenar... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1787 - 482 pages
...beautiful inftances of this Figure : " Weep " on the rocks of roaring winds, O maid of " Iniftore ! bend thy fair head over the waves, ." thou fairer than the ghoft of the hills, when " it moves in a funbeam at noon over the " filence of Morven ! He .is fallen ! Thy " youth is low ; pale beneath... | |
 | Ossian - 1790 - 446 pages
...Bend thy fair head over the waves, thou lovelier than the ghofts of the hills; when it moves, in a fun-beam, at noon, over the filence of Morven ! He...fallen ! thy youth is low ! pale beneath the fword of Cufhullin ! No more fhall valour raife thy love to match the blood of kings. Trenar, graceful Trenar... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1793 - 518 pages
...waves, thou fairer than the " ghoft of the hills, when it moves in a funbeam " at naon over the lilence of Morven ! he is " fallen ! thy youth is low ; pale beneath the his compofitions), after recounting all (he had done to fnpport her unfortunate htilband,.he concludes... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 474 pages
...beautiful inftances of this figure. " Weep on the rocks of roaring winds, О Maid of Iniftore ! Bend thy fair head over the waves, thou fairer than the ghoft of the hills when it moves in a fun-beam at noon over the filence of Morven ! He is fallen ! Thy youth is low ; pale beneath the... | |
 | 1801 - 334 pages
...fair E head over the waves, them lovelier than the ghott of the hills; when it moves, in a Tun-beam, at noon , over the filence of Morven ! He is fallen! thy youth is low! pale beneath the fword of Cuthullin ! No more fhall valour raife thy love to match the blood of kings. Trenar , graceful Trenar... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1801 - 374 pages
...beautilul inflances of this figure. " Weep on the rocks of roaring " winds, O Maid of Iniftore ! Eend thy fair head over " the waves, thou fairer than the ghoft of the hills, when " it moves in a fun-beam at noon over the filence of " Morven ! He is fallen ! Thy youth is low ; pale be" neaththe... | |
 | Ossian - 1801 - 344 pages
...thou lovelier than the ghoft of the hills; when it moves, in a fun-beam, at noon , over the filnnce of Morven! He is fallen! thy youth is low! pale beneath the fword of Cuthul-. lin! No more fhall valour raife thy love to match the blood of kings. Trenar, graceful Trenar... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1802 - 328 pages
...4' Bend thy fair head over the waves, thon fairer, than " the ghoft of the hills, when it moves in a funbeam at " noon over the filence of Morven. He is fallen. Thy •" yputh is low ; pale beneath the fword of Cuchullin." COMPARISON, ANTITHESIS, INTERROGAi TION,... | |
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