Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volumen2 |
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We do not seem to read a narration of events , erein the writer was neither a
witness nor a party : -it is the son — the fatherthe hero — the patriot who speaks ;
who breathes his own passions and feelings on our hearts , and compels our ...
We do not seem to read a narration of events , erein the writer was neither a
witness nor a party : -it is the son — the fatherthe hero — the patriot who speaks ;
who breathes his own passions and feelings on our hearts , and compels our ...
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Not by thy God , in single fight , The deathful hero fell , But by Finn's arm , whose
matchless might Could ev'ry force repel ! In ev'ry mouth his fame we meet , Well
known , and well believed ;I have not heard of any feat Thy cloudy king achieved
...
Not by thy God , in single fight , The deathful hero fell , But by Finn's arm , whose
matchless might Could ev'ry force repel ! In ev'ry mouth his fame we meet , Well
known , and well believed ;I have not heard of any feat Thy cloudy king achieved
...
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There shall each hero share , a welcome guest , The foaming goblet , and
perpetual feast . Again their souls with martial fire shall burn , And host conflicting
adverse host o'erturn : While bright Valkeries , blue - eyed nymphs , shall crown
With ...
There shall each hero share , a welcome guest , The foaming goblet , and
perpetual feast . Again their souls with martial fire shall burn , And host conflicting
adverse host o'erturn : While bright Valkeries , blue - eyed nymphs , shall crown
With ...
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These heroes were selected , on account of their distinguished valour , as
assistants to the gods at that future period of time predicted in the Edda , when
the evil genii should burst from their different confinements to wage war against
them ...
These heroes were selected , on account of their distinguished valour , as
assistants to the gods at that future period of time predicted in the Edda , when
the evil genii should burst from their different confinements to wage war against
them ...
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beautifully adds , in the very tone and spirit of Ossian , Unconscious of her much -
loved hero's fall , Ithona sits in Thomond's lofty hall , And bids the bards to him
awake their laysFor who like Conal claimed the mead of praise ? Sudden , ere
yet ...
beautifully adds , in the very tone and spirit of Ossian , Unconscious of her much -
loved hero's fall , Ithona sits in Thomond's lofty hall , And bids the bards to him
awake their laysFor who like Conal claimed the mead of praise ? Sudden , ere
yet ...
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adds appears approach arms Arthur bard beautiful beneath British called castle character chief church Clifford close cloth countess court Craven dark daughter death deep earl earl of Cumberland enter eyes fame fate father feeling friends give given gold hall hand happy head heart heaven Hengist Henry hero Hole honour immediately Inogen interesting Irish Item kind king knight lady latter length less light lines lived lord manner March meet mentioned mind morning nature never noble object original Ossian period person picture pleasure poem poet present received relates remains remarked says scarcely scene shillings side silver sisters Skipton song soon soul speak spirit spring suffer sweet tender thou thought tion voice warriors whilst whole wild youth
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Página 84 - And through the chink in the fractured floor Look down, and see a griesly sight ; A vault where the bodies are buried upright ! There, face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand...
Página 299 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Página 316 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Página 302 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Página 311 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Página 317 - A cloudy spot. Down thither prone in flight He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing, Now on the polar...
Página 78 - The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, ' stands upon a beautiful curvature of the Wharf, on a level sufficiently elevated to protect it from inundations, and low enough for every purpose of picturesque effect.
Página 30 - It is the practice of the young men of Dumfries to meet in the streets during the hours of remission from labour, and by these means I had an opportunity of witnessing the general solicitude of all ranks and of all ages. His differences with them on...
Página 290 - This pillar was erected in the year 1656, by Ann Counteas Dowager of Pembroke, &c. for a memorial of her last parting, in this place, with her good and pious mother...
Página 25 - My son! my son! may kinder stars Upon thy fortune shine; And may those pleasures gild thy reign, That ne'er wad blink on mine! God keep thee frae thy mother's faes, Or turn their hearts to thee: And where thou meet'st thy mother's friend, Remember him for me!