 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1762 - 536 pages
...hills, towards each other approached the heroes. — As two dark ftreams from high rocks meet, and mix and roar on the plain ; loud, rough, and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Innis-fail. Chief mixed his flrokes with chief, and man with man ; flecl, clanging, founded on ftecl,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1763 - 94 pages
...« c towards each other, approached the heroes. As twp dark " ftreams from high rocks meet, and mix, and roar on the plain ; «« loud, rough, and dark in battle, meet Lochlin and Iniffaif. « Chief mixed his ftrokes with chief, and man with man. Steel « clanging, founded on fteel.... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1765 - 534 pages
...fublime, by collecting together in the feweft words, thofe circumflances which make the great* eft figure. Like Autumn's dark ftorms pouring from two...ftrokes with chief, and man with man : fteel founds on fteel, and helmets are cleft on high : blood burfts and fmokes around : firings murmur on the polifh'd... | |
 | Poetry - 1773 - 466 pages
...hills, towards each other, approached the " heroes. As two dark ftreams from high rocks " meet and mix, and roar on the plain; loud, " rough and dark in battle, meet Lochlin and " Inisfail. Chief mixed his ftrokes with chief, " and man with man. Steel clanging, founded " on fteel. Helmets are cleft... | |
 | Poetry - 1773 - 432 pages
...toward each other approached the heroes. Like two deep ftreams from high rocks meeting, mixing, roaring on the plain ; loud, rough and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Innis-fail. Chief mixes his ftrokes with chief, and man with man ; fteel, clanging, founds on fteel.... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1779 - 250 pages
...hills, towards each other approached the heroes. — As two dark ftreams from high rocks meet , and mix and roar on the plain ; loud, rough and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Innis-fail. Chief mixed his ftrokes with chief, and man with man ; ft.ee! , clanging, founded on fteel... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 282 pages
...towaM ,. each other , approached the heroes. As rwo j, dark flreams from high rocks meet, and mix, » and roar on the plain -, loud, rough , and dark » in battle , meet Lochlin and Inisfail. Chief mix» ed his ftrokes with chief, and man with man. » Steel clanging , founded on fteel. Hcbnets are... | |
 | 1785 - 456 pages
...hills, towards each other, approached the t' heroes. As two dark ftreams from high rocks " meet and mix, and roar on the plain ; loud, " rough, and dark in battle, meet Lochlin and ce Inisfail. Chief mixed his ftrokes with chief, " and man with man. Steel clanging, founded " on fteel.... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788 - 548 pages
...conceit, extremely improper in a fccne of diftrefs. But this laft obfervation belongs to another head. The following defcription of a battle is remarkably...ftrokes with chief, and man with man : fteel founds on fteel, and helmets are cleft on high : blood burfts and fmokes around : firings murmur on the polifh'd... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1790 - 322 pages
...towards each other approached. the heroes. Like two deep ftreams from high rocks meeting, mixing, roaring on the plain ; loud, rough and dark in. battle meet...his ftrokes with chief, and man with man ; fteel, clanging, founds on fteel. Helmets are cleft on high. Blood burfts and fmokes around. Strings murmur... | |
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Like Autumn's dark storms pouring from two echoing hills, towards each other approached the heroes; as two dark streams from high rocks meet and roar on the plain, loud, rough, and dark in battle, meet Lochlin and Inisfail. 
