The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland: In Two Volumes, Volume 1Harper, 1851 - 576 pages |
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... poems of Ossian are Fingal , and Temora , both of which are regular epics , though they are comparatively limited in extent . Of these poems , as well as of the minor productions of his muse , the principal char- acteristics are ...
... poems of Ossian are Fingal , and Temora , both of which are regular epics , though they are comparatively limited in extent . Of these poems , as well as of the minor productions of his muse , the principal char- acteristics are ...
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... poems : A dark red stream of fire comes down from the hill . Crugal sat upon the beam ; he that lately fell by the hand of Suaran , striving in the battle of heroes . His face is like the beam of the setting moon . His robes are of the ...
... poems : A dark red stream of fire comes down from the hill . Crugal sat upon the beam ; he that lately fell by the hand of Suaran , striving in the battle of heroes . His face is like the beam of the setting moon . His robes are of the ...
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... poems . Oh thou that rollest above , round as the shield of my fathers . Whence are thy beams , Oh sun ! thy everlasting light ! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon , cold and pale ...
... poems . Oh thou that rollest above , round as the shield of my fathers . Whence are thy beams , Oh sun ! thy everlasting light ! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon , cold and pale ...
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... poems , the merit of which was very unusual when we consider the period at which the author wrote . Neither of the three writers just mentioned , can , however , justly be considered as Anglo - Saxon authors , for they all wrote in the ...
... poems , the merit of which was very unusual when we consider the period at which the author wrote . Neither of the three writers just mentioned , can , however , justly be considered as Anglo - Saxon authors , for they all wrote in the ...
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... poems on the Bible histories , and on miscel- laneous religious subjects , and some of these have been preserved . His ac- count of the Fall of Man is not unlike that which is given in ' Paradise Lost , ' and the following passage in it ...
... poems on the Bible histories , and on miscel- laneous religious subjects , and some of these have been preserved . His ac- count of the Fall of Man is not unlike that which is given in ' Paradise Lost , ' and the following passage in it ...
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